BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh government on Thursday extended by three months the tenure of a single-member judicial panel probing the last year's jailbreak by eight
SIMI operatives
and their subsequent gunning down by police. It is the third extension that the commission has been given and the new deadline for it to finish the probe is November 6 now. Madhya Pradesh finance minister
Jayant Malaiya
said the decision was taken by a cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
"The term of the single-member judicial commission probing the escape of
SIMI operatives from Bhopal's central jail, has been further extended for a period of three months. The term of this commission was scheduled to end next month (on August 7). Now, the commission's tenure has been extended till November 6," Malaiya said after the cabinet meeting.
On November 7 last year, the state government had appointed retired high court judge S K Pandey to probe the daring jailbreak by eight activists of the banned SIMI.
Initially, this single-member commission had been asked to complete the probe within three months and submit its report to the government. Eight SIMI under-trials had pulled off an audacious escape from the high-security Central Jail of Bhopal on the intervening night of October 30-31 last year after killing a guard.
The police, however, had gunned them down in an alleged encounter on the outskirts of Bhopal within hours after they escaped from the prison after attacking the guards. agencies
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