New Delhi: With the Justice Dhingra Committee report on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots pointing towards lackadaisical attitude on the part of police, government and the prosecution in submitting their findings before the Court on time, Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee chief Manjinder Singh Sirsa said that the report establishes that the Rajiv Gandhi-led Congress had used police and the judiciary to safeguard those behind the carnage.
"We have been saying this from the beginning that Congress has been using police and the judiciary to safeguard those behind the 1984 carnage, " said Sirsa.
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader further said, "The reports that were submitted by Justice Dhingra to the Supreme Court and accepted by the apex court...clearly mentions how Judiciary was used (sic). A judge had let go of several accused in connection with the 1984 killings, one SHO, Mr. Tyagi, who had disarmed the Sikhs who were protecting themselves and asked those involved in the killings to carry on with the carnage...all these people were saved by the Congress."
The Justice Dhingra Committee which was probing 186 cases in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots also made a crucial claim that then SHO Kalyanpuri had assisted the rioters when they were attacking Sikhs.