The Maharashtra  government has extended the term of the Koregaon Bhima Commission of Inquiry till November 8. The order in this regard was issued by the home department on May 9.
The two-member commission is headed by retired Calcutta High Court Chief Justice J N Patel and has Sumit Malik, former state chief secretary, as a member.
The panel was set up by the government in February last year to ascertain the sequence of events that led to the violent clashes in Koregaon Bhima on January 1 last year, which left one person dead and several injured.
The violence broke out on a day when lakhs of Dalits had gathered in the area to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Bhima Koregaon. The panel also has to identify the causes and persons responsible for the violence and suggest measures to prevent the recurrence of such an incident.