Mumbai: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on June 10, filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in Mumbai High Court praying for a direction to Maharashtra government to implement and make public report of Subhodh Jaiswal Committee on investigations into the multi-crore stamp paper racket involving prime accused Abdul Karim Telgi.

The PIL, filed through lawyers P A Sebastian and Majeed Memon, is expected to come up in due course before Chief Justice C K Thakker and Justice Vijaya Tahilramani.

The respondents to the PIL are the state government, Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal, Additional Chief Secretary (home) and Director General of Police Subhash Malhotra.

The PIL has urged the court to direct the respondents to produce before it the report submitted by special investigative team headed by Subodh Jaiswal on the investigations into the bogus stamp paper racket.

Hazare alleged the government had not taken any action on the report although the committee had recommended action against the then police commissioner of Pune R S Sharma, ACP Mulani and P I Deshmukh. Sharma is now the police commissioner of greater Mumbai.

The Jaiswal committee report had indicted all the three officers and recomended dismissal of Mulani and Deshmukh. As regards Sharma, the report blamed him for lopsided probe and made him responsible for the lapses, as he was involved in day to day to day to day investigations as a superior officer.

PTI