News18 Punjab, a TV channel by Network 18, started playing so-called sketches of culprits who had triggered the blast. The so-called sketches looked more like real photographs and were shown on prime channels of Network 18 also.
Former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has dismissed the allegations levelled against him in a complaint to the US Attorney General by a US based activists group Sikhs for Justice. SFJ has accused former Punjab CM of having protected and promoted the police officers who were involved in mass level human rights violations.
Ahead of the US visit of Capt Amarinder Singh, a Sikh rights group sought criminal prosecution of former Chief Minister of the State of Punjab for reinstating, promoting and protecting the police officials named repeatedly by victims and human rights groups as perpetrators of torture, disappearances, and extrajudicial executions during counter insurgency operations in 1990’s.