Seeking immediate intervention of the NHRC in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked it to direct the CBI to file chargesheets against Congress leaders including Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler.
Describing the backlash against Sikh's following the assassination of former prime minister Indira Gandhi as "history's worst ever carnage," SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal also charged the Congress of trying to "scuttle" the trial of the cases "on flimsy grounds".
Badal led a party delegation to NHRC and submitted a memorandum to urge the government to speed up the trial of the criminal cases against all the accused in the riots, in compliance of the Nanavati Commission recommendations.
Later, at a press conference, the Punjab deputy chief minister alleged that the Congress Party was "trying to scuttle" the trial in the anti-Sikh riot cases "on flimsy grounds" and said official figures had put the number of Sikhs killed in the riots at 2,733.
Alleging that the CBI was deliberately delaying the filing of chargesheets in four cases against Kumar and in a case against Tytler, all registered in 2005, for four years, Badal said, "the most shocking part is that the government and CBI are hand in glove in perpetrating this mockery of justice on the country."
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