<span style="color: #222222;">A Special Investigation Team, SIT, set up by the Union home ministry, has decided to reopen seven anti-Sikh riot cases, where the accused were either acquitted or the trial closed. According to a home ministry notification, the SIT has taken up the discharged cases for scrutiny or preliminary inquiry.<br />''<br />''The seven anti-Sikh riot cases were registered in 1984 at police stations in Vasant Vihar, Sun Light Colony, Kalyanpuri, Parliament Street, Connaught Place, Patel Nagar and Shahdara in the national capital. The SIT has issued public notices asking individuals and organisations to provide information related to the seven cases.<br />''<br />''Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa claimed that senior Congress leader and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath will also be investigated in one of the cases. The SIT has so far reopened around 80 out of the 650 cases registered in connection with anti-Sikh riots. The Modi government constituted the SIT for re-investigation of all cases which the probe team finds appropriate.</span><br />
News On AIR | September 10, 2019 8:10 AM
Special Investigation Team decides to reopen seven anti-Sikh riot cases