Govt forms SIT to probe 1984 anti Sikh riot cases
The Home Ministry has constituted a three-member Special Investigation Team, SIT for re-investigation of the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases. According to the Ministry, the newly-constituted SIT has been empowered to examine afresh evidence in cases which had even been closed. The SIT will look into all serious criminal cases relating to the riots, examine evidence and even re-open cases and file charge sheets in the courts concerned.It has been given six months to complete its work, including filing of charge sheets in nearly three-decade old cases. It will be headed by Pramod Asthana, an IPS officer of 1986 batch.
The SIT will have retired district and sessions judge Rakesh Kapoor and Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police in Delhi Police Kumar Gyanesh as its members. The constitution of a SIT for re-investigation of the riot cases was recommended by a government-appointed committee headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice G.P. Mathur had submitted its report to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh last month, recommending a fresh probe of such cases.
The government had recently provided additional 5 lakh rupees compensation to the kin of Sikhs killed in the 1984 riots, which claimed 3,325 persons. Delhi alone accounted for 2,733 and the rest were killed in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and other States.
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