Police in eastern India have opened a criminal investigation into the disappearance of an official report on the killing of about 100 Christians and the destruction of hundreds of church buildings in 2008.
The report has vanished from the Odisha state Chief Minister’s Office, and no government has yet explained when or how.
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The Justice A.S. Naidu Commission report examined the causes of the 2008 violence in Odisha state’s Kandhamal District, widely regarded as the worst episode of anti-Christian persecution in India’s history. It was submitted to the Odisha government in December 2015 and was never made public.
A second missing report, from a separate inquiry into a 2016 hospital fire that killed 22 people in Bhubaneswar, the state capital, has disappeared alongside it.
Sarat Chandra Marandi, a joint secretary in Odisha’s Home Department, on June 10 filed a complaint at the Capital Police Station in Bhubaneswar, stating that both reports are missing from the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO).
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Surinder Kaur and originally published by Christian Daily International.
