At an event on Wednesday, former prime minister Singh had said that the 1984 anti-Sikh riots could have been avoided if the then home minister P V Narasimha Rao had heeded the suggestion of calling in the Army.
1984 anti-Sikh riots: Akali Dal leader Maninder Singh has claimed that eyewitness Sanjay Suri is ready to record statement against Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamalnath.
Sam Pitroda had sparked a controversy by his 'hua-toh-hua’ statement on 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Pitroda, a close aide of Rahul Gandhi and Overseas Congress' head made the remark in response to a question on the riots by a newsman in Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh.
"Thousands of Sikhs were killed mercilessly. The then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi justified it. No one was punished. Manmohan Singh was made (by the Congress) to apologise. What Sam Pitroda has said exposes the Congress' mindset," said BJP president Amit Shah
Releasing a commemorative coin as part of the 350th birth anniversary celebrations of 10th Sikh guru Guru Gobind Singh, Modi also came down on the Congress for the 1984 riots that took place following the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Narpreet Kaur claimed that false cases were filed against her and she spent nine years languishing in different jails. She said she continued her fight despite the odds stacked against her.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar observed that the lack of punishment in such cases signifies the "beginning of the rot" in the system.
The Supreme Court said that the new SIT will have a serving police officer and a retired DIG-level police officer also.
Supreme Court today appointed a panel headed by two of its former judges to examine the justification for closure of 241 anti-Sikh riot cases probed by the SIT.
H S Phoolka has said that he will quit as the Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Assembly so that he can continue to appear in courts for 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims.
Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan, who is on his maiden official visit to India, today said that the 1984 riots were clearly horrific and deeply regrettable.
NDA ally Akali Dal today asked the government to withdraw its statement rejecting a motion adopted by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in Canada terming the 1984 riots as a genocide.
The Delhi High Court today sought a report on 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases in which Congress leader Sajjan Kumar is mentioned in FIRs.
The Supreme Court today directed the Central Government to file a comprehensive status report on the probe into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice R. Banumathi sought the
A Delhi court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
New Delhi: The Centre-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots is likely to reopen and reinvestigate around 186 cases in Delhi and some other states. It had earlier taken a decision to
New Delhi: Centre’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots is set to reopen and reinvestigate around 75 closed cases in Delhi. “Delhi had 237 anti-Sikh riot cases that were closed
As many as 1,020 families, who were hit by the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and migrated to Punjab from different parts of the country, will be given Rs 2 lakh
New Delhi: The CBI today filed a progress report in a Delhi court in sealed cover on its further probe in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which Congress leader Jagdish Tytler was given clean
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