Sikh Genocide 1984: SIT to re-open 72 closed cases

New Delhi: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up to probe into November 1984 massacre of Sikhs in Delhi, has reportedly decided to reopen and reinvestigate around 75 closed cases related to the 1984 Sikh carnage in Delhi. The announcement came a few days after the Delhi CM and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal had written a etter to Indian PM Narendra Modi about ineffectiveness of the SIT.

“Delhi had 237 cases that were closed because of non-availability of victims or lack of evidence. After reviewing their documents, the SIT has decided to reopen about 75 cases so far,” a government official reportedly said.

A survivor of Sikh genocide 1984 talking to the media persons in Amritsar [File Photo used for representational purpose only]

The SIT will issue advertisements regarding these cases and ask victims and witnesses to join the probe.

“The SIT plans to hold public hearings as well in the next couple months in order to enable people, connected to these cases, to provide information,” the official said.

Effectiveness of any SIT remains under question

The effectiveness of any SIT is under question as more than thirty one years have already passed since the massacre of Sikhs and 11 commissions and committees formed by various Indian government to ‘inquire’ into the Sikh carnage of 1984 have failed to deliver justice to the victims.

Thirty Years of Impunity and denial of Justice

It is notable that high ups in the Congress party and the Indian administration perpetrated the Sikh genocidal violence against the Sikhs in November 1984, in which thousands of Sikhs were massacred throughout India. Culprits of the genocidal massacres of Nov. 1984 have enjoyed impunity and high political posts during past three decades where as the victims of the massacre were left to perish as the justice was blatantly denied in these cases.