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Odisha Government lodges FIR over missing commission inquiry reports from CMO

Bhubaneswar, June 10 (UNI) The Odisha Government on Wednesday lodged an FIR with the Capital Police Station over the disappearance of two important Commission of Inquiry reports from the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) during the previous BJD government headed by Naveen Patnaik.
Official sources said Home Department Joint Secretary Sharat Chandra Marandi filed the complaint regarding the missing reports related to the Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati assassination and the subsequent communal violence in Kandhamal, as well as the 2016 SUM Hospital fire tragedy in Bhubaneswar that claimed 22 lives.
One of the missing reports was submitted by the one-member Commission headed by Justice A.S. Naidu, which investigated sensitive issues connected to the assassination of VHP leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and the communal unrest that followed in Kandhamal district.
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