IN A BID to pre-empt the mounting pressure from the opposition parties and farmers' organisation for a judicial probe into the June 10 police firing at Haveri on farmers protesting against the non-availability of fertilisers, in which a farmer was killed, the BJP-led B S Yeddyurappa regime has appointed retired supreme court judge K Jagannath Shetty to probe into the incident. Announcing the government's decision at a hurriedly convened news conference on Sunday evening, the chief minister, however, made it clear that the decision to institute a judicial inquiry was not on account of demands from the opposition. The one-man commission will be asked to furnish its report within four months, the chief minister said, indicating that all facilities necessary to enable the commission to commence its work immediately will be made available within a few days. "It is a unilateral decision taken in the interest of ensuring that the opposition parties were not given an excuse to politicise the issue and provoke the farmers,'' he said blaming the Congress-led UPA regime as also the state's administration under the President's rule of being responsible for the entire situation, including shortages of fertilisers.