One of the resolutions that Bharat, which turned 60 on August 15, has to make for the next year and stay firm on it is: Reports of judicial commissions will be fully implemented and will not be turned into political hot potatoes.

The country has to promise to its people that the threats of anti-Muslim riots by the Saffron thugs in reaction to the implementation of judicial probes’ findings will be firmly ignored and that the culprits – ...

Justice BN Srikrishna, the author of the commission report that went into the Mumbai communal riots of 1992-3, has called for an institutional mechanism which ensures that the government of the day does not have the discretion to reject a report it finds "inconvenient".

"Any judge taking up such an assignment must do so on the promise that it (the report) is binding on the government," Justice Srikrishna, who retired from the Supreme Court and now heads the Sixth P...