NEW DELHI, Reutter’s committee probing antiskih riots in northern India after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination in 1984 has found that the violence was not organized by any group, an Indian newspaper said today.
The widely circulated Hindustan Times said a committee appointed by the government and headed by Supreme Court Judge Ranganath Misra had submitted its findings to the Home Minister in a two-volume, 283-page report. It said reporters were informally barred from reporting proceedings of the committee probing allegations that politicians from Indira Gandhi’s Congress (I) party organized the riots in retaliation for her murder.
The Ranganath Misra Commission is understood to have concluded that the violence was not organized, the newspaper added.
About 10,000 Sikhs were killed. In New Delhi and Surrounding regions when violence erupted after Gandhi was shot by two Sikh bodyguards at her official residence on October 31, 1984.
The Hindustan Times quoted. An official spokesman as saying the government was now studying the Commission’s report.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 29, 1986
