A commission headed by BK Somasekhara, a former judge, assigned to investigate the a
ttacks, handed its report this morning to the government headed by BS Yeddyurappa.
In September 2008, churches were vandalized in different parts of Karnataka.
The Chief Minister at that time had described them as a conspiracy to disrupt law and order. He had admitted then that the state police had failed in protecting churches.
The Somasekhara report will be made public after it is tabled in the Karnataka Assembly.
However, excerpts made available so far summarize the major findings.
"There is no basis to the apprehension of Christian petitioners that the politicians, BJP, mainstream Sangh Parivar and state government directly or indirectly, are involved in the attacks."
On who was responsible, the report suggests, "The attacks are indulged in by misguided fundamentalist miscreants of defined or undefined groups or organizations against Christians and Christianity who have mistakenly presumed that they would be protected by the party in power with their policies at the relevant time."
