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NEW DELHI: A special cell is being set up headed by a Deputy Commissioner of police has been setup to handle the cases related to the November 1984 anti-Sikh massacres
All culprits responsible for these horrible crimes remain unpunished so far.
This step is being taken in view of the increasing number of such cases registered or being investigated on the basis of the recommendations of the Jain Aggarwal committee looking into the massacres The crime branch of the Delhi police has so far completed investigations and prepared charge sheets in three of the eight cases registered last September as per the first batch of recommendations made by the panel. These cases were sent to the directorate of prosecutions last week and are if the process of being filed in the special courts concerned.
Delhi administration also wrote to the police on Feb 19 to register 13 cases and reinvestigate one on the basis of the second batch of recommendations. It is still processing the third and fourth batches submitted last month. Each of these batches covers 12 affidavits from the victims. The panel is going through 900 cases.
The Govt decision to create the special cell is also on the advice of the Jain Bannerji Panel. The crime branch could not deal expeditiously with such cases as it was already overburdened.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 1, 1991
