Dhingra to lead new SIT on 1984 riots
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court set up a three-member special investigation team (SIT) headed by former Delhi High Court judge Justice SN Dhingra to supervise further probe into 186 anti-sikh riot cases.
Besides Justice Dhingra, serving IPS officer Abhishek Dular and retired IG rank officer Rajdeep Singh would be part of the SIT, which has been asked by a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra to submit its status report in two months.
The matter will be heard next on March 19. The top court had on Wednesday held that the previous SIT had not carried out further probe into these 186 cases in which closure reports were filed, and directed setting up of a fresh SIT comprising a former HC judge and two police officers.
Large-scale riots had broken out in the national capital in the aftermath of the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
SERVING IPS OFFICER ABHISHEK DULAR AND RETD IGRANK OFFICER RAJDEEP SINGH ARE ALSO PART OF THE SIT
by two Sikh security guards on the morning of October 31, 1984.
The violence had claimed 2,733 lives in Delhi alone.
The earlier supervisory body, which had submitted its final report, had comprised former apex court judges Justice J M Panchal and Justice KSP Radhakrishnan.