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.
The Centre has told the Supreme Court that it has accepted Justice Dhingra Committee's report in the role of Delhi Police in 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
The government has also said that it will take necessary action.
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The Dhingra Committee has said that the Delhi government at the time and police did not file their reports on time, which led vital records of the cases to get lost.
The panel has also suggested that the state government should file reports in 10 cases.
