SIT set up for re-investigation into 1984 anti-Sikh riots

The three-member team having two inspector general rank IPS officers and a judicial officer will submit its report within six months

PTI
Published12 Feb 2015, 10:25 PM IST
A file picture of  an Akali Dal demonstration by children shortly after the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Photo: HT<br />
A file picture of an Akali Dal demonstration by children shortly after the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Photo: HT

New Delhi: A special investigation team (SIT) was set up by the government on Thursday for a fresh investigation into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases in Delhi and some other states.

An order on setting up of the SIT was issued by the Union home ministry on Thursday evening, official sources said.

The team will submit its report within six months. The three-member SIT will have two inspector general rank IPS officers and a judicial officer. However, the names are yet to be announced by the government.

The SIT has been constituted following a recommendation of a committee, headed by former Supreme Court judge justice (retd) G.P. Mathur, which was set up to look into the possibility of re-investigation of the 1984 riots cases.

The committee submitted its report to home minister Rajnath Singh in January recommending setting up of an SIT for a fresh probe into the riots that followed the assassination of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi on 31 October 1984. Over 3,000 people were killed in the riots. Of them, Delhi alone accounted for 2,733 and the rest were killed in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and other states.

The BJP had earlier demanded re-investigation into all anti-Sikh riot cases. The Justice Nanavati Commission had recommended reopening of only four of the 241 cases closed by police but the BJP wanted the re-investigation of all the other 237 cases. However, it was not immediately clear as to how many anti-Sikh riot cases have been recommended for reopening by the Justice Mathur committee.

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