A senior official said the Home Ministry is actively deliberating on the possibility of uploading the 52-page report on its website on Monday.
The move came after a newspaper report had on Thursday suggested that the panel head, Additional Secretary in the Home Ministry BK Prasad, “tutored” a key witness, setting off a fresh storm with the Congress pushing for suo motu action by the Supreme Court, accusing the Narendra Modi government of creating a “fake controversy”.
The inquiry panel has concluded that the papers were “removed knowingly or unknowingly or misplaced” in September, 2009, a period when Congress leader P Chidambaram was the
Home Minister.
Only one paper of the five documents related to the controversial alleged Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case that went missing from the Home Ministry was found, said the inquiry report submitted on Wednesday. “It is evident that the documents were removed knowingly or unknowingly or misplaced,” the inquiry committee has concluded.
The panel, however, made no reference to Chidambaram or anyone in the then UPA government.