The convenor of the committee, Agnes Kharshiing, today said there was undue delay on the part of the state government to appoint a new judge to complete the judicial probe after the former judge went to Assam on a new assignment.
It was on May 31 last year that seven undertrial prisoners, led by hardcore criminal Full Moon Dhar, escaped from Shillong Jail.
While police later shot dead Dhar, the other six undertrials were re-captured.
However, two re-captured undertrials accused the police of killing Dhar in a fake encounter.
After the incident, the agitation by the committee compelled the state government to institute a magisterial probe besides police investigations.
However, after the committee piled up pressure, the government in October last year constituted the judicial probe into the jailbreak headed by retired judge Justice D. Biswas.
The terms of reference of Biwas’s inquiry commission was to go into the details of the jailbreak episode, as there were allegations of politician-criminal nexus in the crime.
But the judge could not complete his probe as he took up the official assignment of in Assam on April 20.
Kharshiing said according to the letter written by Biswas to the state government, the proceedings of the previous commission should continue and the new commission should start further probe after seeing the proceedings of the previous commission.
Kharshiing said during the meeting with the chief minister, the committee members would request him to speed up the appointment of a new judge to complete the inquiry at the earliest.
The committee also discussed the alleged misappropriation of public money by way of submission of fake TA bills by some legislators who went on foreign tours according to the report of the Comptroller and Accountant General of India, tabled in March this year in the state Assembly.