A one-man committee set up to trace the missing documents related to the alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan in Gujarat is learnt to have made no recommendations for punitive action against anyone.
To submit report todayThe committee led by Additional Secretary B.K. Prasad is likely to submit the report to Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi on Tuesday. While none of the missing documents have been traced, it will be for the Union Home Minister to decide the next step, said a senior government official.
The panel was constituted after Mr. Singh had disclosed in Parliament on March 10 that certain pages from the Ishrat files were missing.
Following an uproar in Parliament, the Ministry had asked Mr. Prasad to inquire into the circumstances in which the documents related to the case of Ishrat Jahan.
The papers which disappeared from the Home Ministry include the copy of an affidavit vetted by the then Attorney General late G.E. Vahanvati and submitted in the Gujarat High Court in 2009 and the draft of the second affidavit vetted by the AG on which changes were made. Two letters written by the then Home Secretary G.K. Pillai to the then Attorney General and the copy of the draft affidavit have so far been untraceable.
On Monday, 1988 batch IAS officer Dharmendra Sharma who was handling the Internal Security division in MHA from 2007-09 recorded his statement before the one-man panel.
