This is the mother of all excuses produced by the state government for not taking action against about 80 officials, including influential state politicians, all indicted by the CBI for allegedly buying land with trees at a pittance from tribals. And then making a killing by selling the trees at exorbitant rates. The excuses, furnished by the MP and Chhattisgarh governments, range from: they do not have Xerox copies of relevant documents to the claim that they are awaiting responses from chargesheeted officials. Now the Supreme Court has asked the two state governments to submit the status of enquiries within the next four weeks in what is known as the