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While Justice Patel is the chairman, former chief secretary Sumit Mullick, now chief information commissioner, is a member.The commission will probe the sequence of events leading to the violence, the persons responsible, if there was adequate police bandobast in and around Koregaon Bhima at that time, and suggest measures to ensure such incidents are not repeated. MUMBAI: Hearings began before a two-member judicial commission headed by former Chief Justice J N Patel, probing the Koregaon Bhima violence on Wednesday, with Niteen Pradhan, defence counsel for accused, Milind Ekbote, cross-examining the first witness.The witness, a 40-year-old graphics designer from Thane, said she was among those injured in stone-pelting on a bus.In the wake of large-scale violence across the state, following clashes between two groups after the death of a youth on January 1, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis had on February 9 set up a two-member commission to probe the issue..