Jheeram Valley massacre report submitted to Guv

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The Jheeram Valley Inquiry Commission which probed the massacre of 29 people including 13 Congress leaders by alleged Naxalites in 2013 submitted its report to Chhattisgarh Governor Anusuiya Uikey on Saturday.

The report was handed over by Santosh Kumar Tiwari, Secretary of the Commission and Registrar (Judicial), the High Court of Chhattisgarh.

The report is in 10 volumes with 4148 pages, an official communication said.

The Commission was set up on May 28, 2013 under the chairmanship of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, a judge of the High Court. Justice Mishra has been elevated as the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court.

The Jheeram Valley incident took place on May 25, 2013 when alleged Naxalites targeted a Congress Parivartan Yatra.

Those killed included then Pradesh Congress Committee President Nand Kumar Patel, Mahendra Karma, Uday Mudaliar, Dinesh Patel and others. Former Union Minister Vidya Charan Shukla was critically injured and later succumbed to his injuries.

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