The court asked additional government advocate Debasis Nayak, who is also counsel for Cuttack Municipal Corporation, to obtain instructions from the authorities and file affidavits within four weeks.
The repeated inquiries were sought merely because a criminal case was lodged against the applicant by his father-in-law, who was apparently opposed to his daughter's marriage to the petitioner.
Three devotees were killed and several others injured in the stampede near Gundicha temple on June 29 prompting Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi to order the administrative probe.
The defamation case has been filed against Divya and T V Prasanthan, an applicant for a petrol pump licence who had levelled bribery allegations against Naveen.
