In fifty years number of Commissions were constituted under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952. Practically, no Commission had concluded hearing and submitted the report within time and every Commission had asked for extension of time which was granted. The Commission constituted every time on happening of a public event in order to side track the attention of the public. The practice of the government - to appoint retired High Court Judge or sitting High Court Judge - in the Commission is to pacify the public opinion. The Commisison's Report is not usually within time. When the report is given more times it is not fully published and a number of times it is not acted upon. This is a sad practice followed by all the political parties to befool the people and side track their shock, people are burdened with another shock and they forget about the first shock. I have taken up this point in order to pin point the latest case of Commission appointed by Gujarat Government with regard to the Gujarat Riots. Mr. Justice K. G. Shah was appointed to investigate with regard within three months. Due to objection against the appointment, Mr. Justice G. T. Nanavati, Retired Supreme Court Judge was appointed as Chairman of the Riots Commission with Mr.Justice K. G. Shah and the Commission had to submit report by December, 2002.

Mr. Justice G. T. Nanavati, Chairman of the two other Commissions, one of Delhi Sikh Riots of 1984 and inquiry with regard to Lathi charge on Advocates of Delhi, was already appointed and was carrying out the duties of the said two Commissions. In addition, he has been entrusted the work of Commission of Gujarat Riots and it is reported in Times of India that he has not enough dates in his diary to fulfil the job. This is a classic way of befooling the people, so by the time report comes it would be meaningless and everybody would have forgotten the incident in Gujarat. Assembly Elections were held on 12th December, 2002 and the report was not submitted till June, 2003.

The reader can refer the book "Citizens' Rights, Judge and State accountability" written by Shri A. G. Noorani in which the author has dealt with above topic in details in five chapters page 203 to 216.

Chapter 26 : Dissolving a Commission of Inquiry.
27 : Publishing inquiry Reports.
28 : Jain Commission's Final Report.
29 : The Tahelka Commission and Press Freedom.
30 : The Commission as Vendetta.

The above subject is mentioned to point out to support the conclusion that Indian do not make decisions and do not have value of time. All the political parties have fooled the people by appointing the Commission in order to divert the attention of the people.