India, March 5 -- The Mohan Majhi government on Wednesday told the Orissa high court in an affidavit that the court cannot force the government to make public the report of the inquiry commission set up to probe the missing Ratna Bhandar keys at Puri's Jagannath Temple.

The Majhi government's stand is at variance with its affidavit on June 19 last year that agreed to make the report public. In the run up to elections to the state assembly last year, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had promised to make the report public within a month of coming to power.

The high court is hearing a petition that has demanded the inquiry report into the keys be made public. Besides, the petition also wants the authorities to give a status report o...