The CBI has registered two cases against “unknown persons,” regarding incidents of murder and arson, among other crimes, during the November 1984 pogroms of Sikhs in India:
The Ministry of Home Affairs had referred 10 cases registered by the Delhi Police to the CBI for examination out of which the agency firmed up investigations in two […]
The two committees inquiring into compensation for victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms submitted their reports to Union Home Secretary VK Duggal on October 29. The committees are headed by Special Secretary KP Singh and Secretary (Border Management) DK Sankaran. Their report recommends about Rs 1,000 crore of additional compensation.
Specifically,
they recommended compensation of Rs […]
The Union Home Ministry has asked India’s Central Bureau of Investigation to reopen cases against Congress party leaders Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar, and Dharam Dass Shastri. In other cases against these politicians, however, the CBI has proven to be poor prosecutors, failing to prepare arguments and marshall evidence. Further:
The ministry, however, is yet to decide […]
Chief Minister Raman Singh has announced that the Chhattisgarh state government will send a report on the 1984 pogroms to the central government:
“I have
asked district collectors to collect records about families affected in
riots after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated. Based on
these, the state will send a report to New Delhi about the losses and
number […]
A recent article in Frontline discusses the reaction of the survivors of the 1984 pogroms to the Nanavati Report, also mentioning ENSAAF.
The
Frontline article observes that the Nanavati Commission report has
recast the 1984 massacres in a way that is palatable to the state. This
cover-up by the state and its failure to acknowledge its atrocities
have had a lasting […]
On September 12, the Delhi government announced a Rs 1.25 lakh compensation
for each of 2,996 people injured in the 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms.
This decision by the Delhi Cabinet was made after the Delhi High Court
ordered the state government to compensate those injured based on a
plea filed by Manjit Singh, a victim of the pogroms. The government
decided not […]
The DK Sankaran Committee, recently organized to provide relief to survivors of the 1984 pogroms of Sikhs, held its first meeting:
The issue of giving relief to the Sikhs, who left their homes in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh to go to Punjab, was raised by the representatives from Punjab who attended the first […]
The Delhi police claim to have registered 636 cases regarding the 1984 pogroms of Sikhs, and to have secured convictions in 37 cases. These low conviction rates are another indication of impunity for the perpetrators of the 1984 massacre of Sikhs.
ENSAAF’s report Twenty Years of Impunity: The November 1984 Pogroms of Sikhs in India reveals […]
More than twenty years after Operation Bluestar and the looting of the Sikh Reference Library by the Indian Army, historic manuscripts taken by the army still have not been returned.
The Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) has often raised this issue in the past twenty years, passing a resolution every year and writing to the […]
The prosecution’s behavior in a case against Sajjan Kumar, arising from the 1984 Sikh massacres, gives insight into what will happen in any future prosecutions initiated by the government in fulfillment of its recent promises regarding the Nanavati Report.
The Delhi High Court was forced to adjourn a hearing today because the prosecuting authority was not […]