Calls to Release Shah Commission Report on Emergency Atrocities

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar has urged the government to explore the possibility of presenting an authentic copy of the Shah Commission report on the Emergency period in Parliament. The Shah Commission investigated numerous abuses during the 1975 Emergency, and its findings should be made available to the public.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar has called on the government to explore the feasibility of presenting an authentic copy of the Shah Commission report on Emergency excesses to the House. This report, he emphasized, probed the "darkest period of democracy."

The Shah Commission, set up in 1977, examined numerous atrocities during the Emergency imposed in 1975. Deepak Prakash, a BJP MP from Jharkhand, highlighted that the Commission conducted 100 sittings and reviewed 48,000 documents before finalizing its report in 1978.

Prakash stressed the significance of making the report public, noting that although the Indira Gandhi-led government destroyed it in 1980, a copy exists in the National Library of Australia. The report's release is essential to revealing the true facts of the Emergency period.

(With inputs from agencies.)