Jhajjar, Oct 27: It was a mob of about 2,000 who watched the lynching of the five Dalits 10 days ago but not a single witness turned up on Day One of the ‘‘high-level’’ inquiry commission appointed by Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala.

Commissioner (Rohtak Division) R R Banswal is the one-man commission and after putting an ad in newspapers asking eyewitnesses to depose, spreading the word through local Revenue Officers, he spent three hours this morning doing little other than waiting