Bhubaneswar, Dec 22: Justice A S Naidu commission of inquiry on Kandhamal riot submitted its report to Odisha Government today.
Commission of Inquiry handed over the 1020-page report to Home Secretary Asit Tripathy at the Secretariat here.
According to the Secretary of the Commission of Inquiry, a total of 825 affidavits were filed before it and 300 persons deposed before the Commission as witnesses during the course of its investigation. Out of them, 78 were government employees and 222 from the general public.
It should be noted that Justice Naidu, a retired Orissa High Court judge, was named by the state government as the one-man judicial commission of the Kandhamal case after the demise of Justice Sarat Chandra Mohapatra in 2012.
The state government had set up a judicial commission on September 3, 2008 immediately after the killing of Saraswati on August 23, 2008.
At least 38 people were killed in Kandhamal alone while the total death toll in the communal riots in the aftermath of Saraswati was 42 in the state. About 4,000 houses besides come churches were burnt during the riot.
