The Justice MM Das Commission of Enquiry, probing into the chit fund scam in the State for nearly 30 months now, submitted its third interim report to the State Government on Tuesday. Set up in July 2013, Justice Das headed the panel in February 2015 following the death of the then Commission Justice RK Patra.
Justice Das had submitted his first interim report in May 2016 just within a month of making controversial remarks about the “greediness” of the investors and giving a clean chit to the Government. He submitted his second report in February this year when the panchayat elections were underway, drawing flak from the opposition political parties.
Similarly, Justice Das submitted his third report when the State is witnessing a fierce political slugfest over the alleged dubious transactions in the ruling BJD’s bank account of receiving huge funds from unknown sources and the alleged discrepancies in the statements of election expenses of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his party to the Election Commission of India.
It may be mentioned that the BJP and the Congress last year had demanded to remove Justice Das from probing further into the chit fund scam for his unpleasant remarks made at
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