Madhya Pradesh Government today extended by six months the tenure of the judicial commission probing the escape by eight SIMI activists from Bhopal Central Jail last year and their deaths in alleged police encounter.
After the State cabinet meeting, talking to media persons Finance Minister Jayant Malaiya told media persons that the State cabinet approved a proposal to extend the tenure of single-member commission probing the jail-break by another six months.
Eight members of Students Islamic Movement of India facing trial escaped from the high-security Central Jail on the intervening night of October 30-31, 2016, after allegedly killing a guard. Police later claimed they were killed in an encounter the next morning, but genuineness of the encounter was questioned.
The term of one-man commission of retired MP High Court judge SK Pandey, appointed to probe the entire episode, was to end onJanuary 6 earlier.