The court's anguish was expressed by a three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice A S Anand, Justice S Rajendra Babu and Justice R C Lahiti, while directing consigning to records of the court, a PIL seeking a direction to the Uttar Pradesh Government to take follow-up action on the report of Justice C D Parakh Commission, which went into the Meerut riots of September 20, 1982

The court direction came following an affidavit from State Home Secretary N Ravi Shankar stating that the State Cabinet with a view to "maintaining religious and political harmony in Meerut city and to avoiding any flare-up in any particular class or community", had decided not to take any further action on the basis of the Parakh Commission report which itself did not identify any particular person responsible for the riots nor fixed responsibility fordereliction of duty on any official.

"The State Government having considered the reports and taken a decision, this petition does not require any further consideration and is consigned to records," the Court said.

The court noted that in this case, it had taken more than a decade for the State Government to take notice of the report of the Commission headed by a former judge of Allahabad High Court.

"On account of such inaction for a long period of time, the very purpose of constitution of a Commission of inquiry under the Commission of Inquiry Act, 1952 gets frustrated and the argument that such commission are appointed under the act only as an eyewash acquires credibility," the court observed.