New Delhi: Over 180 cases linked to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots will be reopened and investigated by an SIT headed by a retired High Court judge, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday.
The top court’s decision came after a committee appointed by it recommended reopening 186 of the 241 closed cases.
Anti-Sikh riots, which had broke out after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, had claimed 2,733 lives in Delhi alone. Congress leaders Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar were accused of leading the mobs.
In February 2015, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs constituted a three-member special investigation team (SIT) to reinvestigate criminal cases filed in Delhi in relation to the 1984 Sikh massacre.
Over two years and three term extensions later, the SIT finally stated in 2017 that it had closed 241 cases and filed charges in just 12 cases.
In August, the Supreme Court set up a panel comprising two former judges to examine the SIT's decisions to close cases.
Details awaited
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