The Chhattisgarh High Court on May 11 stayed the enquiry proceedings of a judicial commission newly reconstituted by the State Government, which added new terms of reference to an existing enquiry into the 2013 Jheeram Ghati Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) attack that left 28 Congress leaders dead, reports Hindustan Times. A petition was filed by senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) and leader of opposition Dharamlal Kaushik questioning ‘constitutionality’ of the commission on April 13. Kaushik pointed out that the report of the Jheeram Ghati Inquiry Commission headed by Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra should have been tabled in legislative assembly within six months of its submission but without submitting the report, the state government reconstituted the judicial commission. The division bench of chief justice Arup Kumar Goswami and justice RCS Samant has also issued notices to the state government and the judicial commission and sought a reply. “The court after hearing the petition stayed the enquiry proceedings of the reconstituted judicial commission. The court has also sought reply from the state government and judicial commission on the next hearing which is scheduled on July 4,” said Vivek Sharma, Kaushik’s lawyer.