Overview
- A police complaint filed by the state Home Department led to an FIR on June 10 over two missing inquiry files that were last traced to the Chief Minister’s Office during the 2024 change of government.
- The CID Crime Branch re-registered the case on July 28 under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and assigned DSP Asutosh Mishra to lead the probe with SP Anirudha Routray supervising.
- Investigators have summoned several former senior CMO officials who had custody links to the file and only former IT secretary Manoj Mishra has so far recorded a statement.
- Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has publicly called the disappearance a "well-planned" conspiracy and said his government will expose those responsible, increasing the political stakes of the inquiry.
- The Naidu Commission report, submitted to the state in 2016 after a probe into the 2008 Kandhamal violence, was never made public and its loss raises questions about official records handling, public accountability, and whether other missing files such as the SUM Hospital inquiry will be separately pursued.