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Special Investigation Team likely to probe 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases

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Making a deft move before the announcement of Delhi assembly elections, the BJP-led NDA government on Tuesday gave indications of constituting a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the cases of 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims.

The move could spell fresh trouble for Congress and its leaders such as Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler who alleged to have played role in inciting and directing mobs during 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

The decision to form yet another SIT will be taken by a new two-member Committee that has been constituted by the union home ministry under the chairmanship of retired Supreme Court judge, Justice G P Mathur. He will be assisted by home ministry's joint secretary J P Aggarwal as member secretary. The committee has been asked to submit its report within three months.

The union home ministry said as the ministry has been receiving a large number of complaints from various individuals and associations, it has constituted the committee to look into various grievances relating to 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

The committee shall also oversee the implementation of the payment of enhanced compensation of Rs. 5 lakh to the next of the kin of people who were killed during the riots. The compensation, approved by the union cabinet on December 10, 2014, is in addition to the Rs. 3.5 lakh compensation already paid to the NoK by the previous Congress led UPA government.

Delhi bore the brunt
Of the 3,325 victims of the riots, 2,733 were killed in Delhi alone while the rest were from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
The fresh compensation, which will cost the exchequer Rs 166 crore, sources said.

The UPA government had announced a package of Rs 717 crore in 206 that included monetary compensation of Rs 3.5 lakh to the kin of each killed in the riots besides financial assistance to the injured and those who had lost their property.

Out of this only, Rs 517 crore had been spent and the remaining Rs 200 crore could not be distributed because of dispute over claimants.

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