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Mr. Shettar told The Hindu here that none from the Opposition asked for a judicial inquiry. The Opposition had made a plea for a CBI investigation. "We are not satisfied with it and still insist on a CBI probe into the matter," Mr. Shettar said. He said his hunch was that the State Government had taken the decision with a view to foreclose any discussion on the issue during the coming Legislature session beginning on December 23. Mr. Shettar pointed out that this had happened during the discussion on the police firing a few months ago at Zalki in Bijapur District. When he sought to move an adjournment motion on the matter, the Home Minister, Mallikarjun Kharge, and the Law Minister, D.B. Chandre Gowda, opposed it on the ground that a judicial inquiry had been ordered. Mr. Shettar said hardly any purpose would be served by a judicial inquiry since it would be a time consuming affair and the judicial commission would have to go only by the documents produced and depositions made before it. It had no power to investigate any particular point. What was needed, he said, was to investigate several aspects of the episode, which continued to be a puzzle even today. This could be done by the CBI, but it could not take up investigation unless permitted by the State Government, Mr. Shettar said. He wondered why the Government was shying away from a CBI inquiry and why it was in a hurry to announce a judicial inquiry instead of waiting for the discussions in the Legislature and taking a decision after listening to the views of the members. He suspected that the Government was trying to "hush up" something and was doing its best to extricate itself from the mess. This was evident from the discovery of spent bullet casings near the place where the late Nagappa was killed three days after the discovery of the body. How was it that the police had not bothered to go over there and comb the area immediately? Referring to the threat held out by the Chief Minister that he would expose the role of the Opposition in the Nagappa episode, Mr. Shettar asked Mr. Krishna to go ahead. "We have nothing to hide. Let him come out with whatever he wants to say on this." Mr. Shettar said that a party meeting would be held in Bangalore to work out a strategy for the coming session of the Legislature. He was also planning to convene a meeting of the all Opposition parties within the next two to three days in this connection. He had called one meeting immediately after the death of Nagappa, but it did not materialise due to lack of communication. Mr. Shettar saw no difficulty in the Opposition evolving a common strategy during the discussion about the killing of Nagappa. There were no difference among the parties whatsoever, since all had demanded the resignation of Mr. Krishna and pressed for the CBI investigation. "May be there is a difference of opinion in the Janata Parivar, but there is nothing between them and us," Mr. Shettar said. The JD(U) and the JD(S) should have been in the forefront of the agitation over the Nagappa issue. But it was the BJP which had taken the lead, he added.
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