Justice Wadhwa expressed his prima facie view seeking some more explanation on the propriety of the FIR and asked State Advocate General Jayant Das to submit the clarification before its next sitting begining May 26 in Delhi.

Das had assured the commission that he would clarify any doubt and misgivings in the FIR in the next sittings.

The Wadhwa Commission also wanted to know from the State Government the timings of the filing of FIR, the names mentioned in it and the translation of the FIR submitted before it.

It asked the State Advocate General to submit before it the number of cases registered under the Freedom of Religion Act, the role of the district intelligenceagency, the conversion issue, the steps taken to improve the police system, deployment of police forces and the policy on the transfer of the police officials.

The State Advocate General submitted that the killings of Staines and his two sons was very unfortnate as the State had no no history of communal disturbances and this kind of crime was unheard in the State.

Das attributed the incident at Manoharpur to the remoteness of the area and lack of information besides the lack of inter-district coordination. It was unfortunate that despite all efforts by the CBI and the Orissa police, Dara Singh, the prime accused in the case, is still at large, he added.

Submitting before the commission, counsel for the Central Government O P Gagger said the Intelligence Bureau (IB) did not have adequate information about the events taking place in the State, particularly in the tribal areas.

The commission, however, asked the counsel for the Central Government whether it had any knowledge or information about theconversion, the jungle camps in Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar districts and wanted to know the role of the IB in the tribal areas where sporadic incidents of communal trouble had been reported.

Gagger, however, said that he would furnish all details after due consultation with the concerned departments during the next sittings of the commission in Delhi.

Senior counsel for the commission Gopal Subramanium said the commission had received as many as 150 affidavits, recorded evidence of 52 witnesses and 100 exhibits. It also received the report of the National Human Rights Commission, the National Minority Commission and the preliminary report of its own investigating team in connection with the incident.

He appealed to the commission to come out with recommendations for the improvement of the functioning of the investigative agency and suggest some code of conduct to ensure peace and eliminate communal disturbances in the soceity.

The Wadhwa Commission which held as many as 20 sittings here, will now meet inDelhi for three days from May 26 to continue further arguments. The commission is likely to submit its report to the Government next month.

The CBI had claimed yesterday that it had completed 80 per cent of the investigation and was confident of arresting the prime accused in the case, Dara Singh, soon.

Superintendent of Police, CBI, Lokanath Behera had said the evidence collected so far indicated that Rabindra Kumar Pal alias Dara Singh was the main accused and principal conspirator in the case. All aspects of the crime would come to light once he was arrested, he said.