Bhubaneswar: The state government has set up twelve commissions of inquiry in the last ten years and spent more than Rs 103 crore on these panels. However, it has not tabled probe reports into six cases, while the investigation into alleged gang-rape case in Kunduli is going on while the victim has committed suicide in January last.

This was revealed from the written reply of chief minister Naveen Patnaik to a question asked by BJP MLA Dillip Ray on Monday.

The government has incurred the highest expenditure, of Rs 4.23 crore, on the much-hyped commission which is probing into the unauthorised collection of public deposits in the state. The commission was first headed by retired high court judge Justice R.K. Patra and subsequently by Justice M.M. Das. The commission has submitted four interim reports to the state government. But none of them has been tabled in the Assembly. The final report of the commission is awaited.

Similarly, though the government has spent more than Rs 2.11 crore on the commission, which probed into killing of VHP leader Swami Laxmananda Saraswati and four others, and the inquiry report has been submitted to the government on December 22, 2015, the report has not been tabled in the Assembly yet despite the provision that any report has to be placed in the legislature within six months of its submission. The inquiry assumes significance as the killings had triggered communal violence in Kandhamal in 2008. The probe report into the SUM Hospital fire tragedy on October 17, 2016 has been submitted to the state government on June 13 last year. But that report also has not been made public yet.

Another inquiry into the police firing in Gumudumaha village in Kandhamal district on July 8, 2016, that had killed five tribal people has also met the same fate. Though the probe report has been submitted to the government on March 17 this year, it is yet to be tabled in the House.