Asked how long it will take before the perpetrators of the crime are brought to justice, the Chief Minister said, "you cannot pre-judge how long it will take. It could take days, (it could take) weeks."

Asserting that the process will be transparent, he said this is "not going to be one of those probes where facts are made known but they are either buried or no action is taken".

Asked whether the exhumation of the bodies comes a little late, he said, he did not believe it was "too late". "The High Court has taken some inputs to whether an exhumation at this point in time would be beneficial or not.

They clearly have been led to understand that even at this point, if we were to exhume the bodies, conduct an in-depth post-mortem, we may be able to gather some evidence that was perhaps missed in the earlier post-mortem," he said.

He also noted that the Jan Commission and SIT were working together to put the pieces together to establish what happened and who were perpetrators.