There is no legal requirement for the government to table reports of commissions of inquiry first in the legislature, according to a cross-section of civil servants, both serving and retired.
It is only a “matter of convention and legislative privilege” that reports of the commissions, say, constituted by the State governments, are presented to the Assemblies, they explain, pointing to the rationale that the Assemblies are bodies of elected representatives.
On Monday, the Tamil Nadu government, in a release, touched upon certain recommendations of the Justice Aruna Jagadeesan Commission of Inquiry into the Thoothukudi firing in May 2018 and the Justice A. Arumughaswamy Commission on the hospitalisation and death of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.
