NRP Desk
Lucknow: THE three-member judicial com mission formed last year to probe the violence in Sambhal, that left four dead and several injured, submitted its report to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Thursday-setting off speculation that its contents talked of a “dernographic shift, Officials said the contents of the 400-page report would re-main “confidential” until it was first placed before the state Cabinet and then the Assembly. “The judicial commission report has been submitted. It would be studied and action taken accord ingly,” Principal Secretary Home, Sanjay Prasad said. The Opposition questioned mediareports on what the report contained even before it had been tabled in the Assembly. Congress state president Ajay Rai told The Indian Express, “It is a confidential report but its contents are being discussed… It is nothing but a mechanism of the ruling party to divert attention from the significant issue to again create divide in society, Youngsters are looking for employment, farmers are troubled and all they are trying to highlight is Hindu-Muslim” BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi said the Opposition could not turn a blind eye to the fact that “demographic change is a bitter truth”. “There are over 100 such districts across the country and many districts be-sides Sambhal facing an exodus of Hindus. We are hopeful that hased on this report, the guvernment will come out with a policy to not just stop such exodus but aso bring back those who have left becane of a planned conspir acy against Hindus” The judicial commission, which looked into the violence that erupted near the Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal on November 24 last year during an ASI-moni-tored survey of the mosque, was headed by retired Allahabad High Court judge Devendra Kumar Arota and included retired IPS of ficer Arvind Kumar Jain and ex-IAS officer Amit Mohan Prasad.
