Of the total 1,254 cases registered in Kanpur during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the SIT has selected 38 cases of heinous crimes of murder and dacoity to further investigate it. (Express Archives) Of the total 1,254 cases registered in Kanpur during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the SIT has selected 38 cases of heinous crimes of murder and dacoity to further investigate it. (Express Archives)A Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) has castigated the police and administration over their response to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, saying their “whole role… seems to have been to hush up the criminal cases concerning the riots”. The committee said in its report that a perusal of the files shows the FIRs were not registered by police incident-wise or crime-wise. In some cases, police, while filing challan in court, clubbed hundreds or murders and sent all accused together for trial.

Source: Indian Express January 15, 2020 21:00 UTC