Justice AS Naidu, who is probing into the 2008 killing of Hindu seer Swami laxmanananda Saraswati in Kandhamal and the subsequent communal riots in the district, is on a four-day visit to the riot-hit district from Wednesday. It was the first visit of the judicial commission after it undertook the probe into the riots.
Justice Naidu on the first day visited the Jaleshpeta Kanyashram where Swami laxmanananda was murdered. He held discussions with the ashram inmates. He then visited Uttamgarh, where four people were killed during the riots, and other places to talk to people of the affected areas.
He would visit other riot-hit regions during his stay in the district till March 9 and examine all the cases of violence.
In the first phase of his visit, Justice Naidu held talks with the SP and the Collector over the present state of affairs in the district.
He would hear cases of violence at the District Conference Hall here.