Commissions and Committees

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Commissions and Committees
1. Marwah Commission : This Commission was appointed in November, 1984. Mr. Marwah almost completed his enquiry towards the middle of 1985, when he was directed by the Central Government not to proceed further, as Misra Commission was appointed by then. Complete records of Marwah Commission were taken over by the Government and were later transferred to Misra Commission. 2. Misra Commission of Enquiry was appointed in May, 1985. Justice Misra submitted his report in August, 1986 and the report was made public six months thereafter in February, 1987. There was only one term of reference to this Commission, i.e. Whether the violence was organized?
The case of the victims was presented before Misra Commission by Citizens Justice Committee, a body constituted for this specific purpose, comprising Justice S.M. Sikri, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India as its President, Justice V.M. Tarkunde, former Judge of the Bombay High Court, Mr. Soli Sorabjee, former Attorney General, Mr. Khushwant Singh, eminent journalist, Justice R.S. Narula, former Chief Justice of Punjab &Haryana High Court, Lt. Gen. J.S. Arora, Prof. Rajni Kothari, President, PUCL, Mr. Govinda Mukhotey, President, PUDR and others.
3. Kapur Mittal Committee was appointed in February, 1987 on the recommendation of Misra Commission to enquire into the role of police, which job the Marwah Committee had almost completed in 1985 itself, when the Government asked that Committee to wind up and not proceed further. This Committee consisted of Justice Dalip Kapur and Mrs. Kusum Mittal, retired Secretary of U.P. This Committee submitted its report in 1990. 72 police officers were identified for their connivance or gross negligence. However, till date, not a single police officer has been awarded any kind of punishment. One such police officer is presently Special Commissioner of Police in Delhi Police and the other is Joint Commissioner of Police.
4.Jain Banerjee Committee : This Committee was recommended by Misra Commission for recommending registration of cases. Misra Commission held in its report that a large number of cases have not been registered and wherever the victims named political leaders or police officers, the cases were not registered against them. In November, 1987 many press reports appeared for not registering cases inspite of recommendation of the Committee. The Government did not oppose the stay. Ultimately, the Writ Petition was decided in August, 1989 and the High Court quashed appointment of this Committee.
5. Potti Rosha Committee was appointed in March, 1990 as a successor to Jain Banerjee Committee.
6.Jain Aggarwal Committee was appointed in Deccember, 1990 as a successor to Potti Rosha Committee, consisting of Justice J.D. Jain, retired Judge of the Delhi High Court and Mr. D.K. Aggarwal, retired DGP of U.P. This Committee was wound up in August, 1993. 7.Ahooja Committee was the third Committee recommended by Misra Commission to ascertain the total number of killings in Delhi.
8. Dhillon Committee headed by Gurdial Singh Dhillon was appointed in 1985 to recommend measure for rehabilitation of the victims. One of the major recommendations of this Committee was that the business establishments, which had insurance cover, but whose insurance claims were not settled by insurance companies on the technical ground that riot is not covered under the insurance, should be paid compensation under the directions of the Government. However, the Governmment did not accept this recommendation and as a result insurance claims were rejected by all the insurance companies through out the country. 9. Narula Committee was appointed in December, 1993 by Madan Lal Khurana Government in Delhi.
10.Nanavati Commission was appointed by an unanimous resolution passed in the Rajya Sabha. This Commission issued notices to HKL Bhagat former Union Minister, Sajjan Kumar, former Member of Parliament, Dharamdas Shastri, former Member of Parliament, Kamal Nath (presently Union Commerce Minister) and Jagdish Tytler (presently Union State Minister for NRI Affairs). The report of this Commission is likely to be submitted in February, 2005. Wg. Cdr. R.S. Chhatwal is the Member Secretary of this Committee.