Leaders meet Prez, seek justice for '84 riots victims

New Delhi (PTI): Seeking justice for the victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots, leaders of various political parties on Wednesday met President Pranab Mukherjee and sought his intervention in directing the government to order a Supreme Court-monitored SIT probe into the violence. Top leaders of BJP and Shiromani Akali Dal, along with those of Shiv Sena, Samajwadi Party, TDP, JMM, INLD, BJD and JD-U handed over a memorandum to President Mukherjee, asking him to direct the Central government for acceptance of their demands in addressing the grievances of the Sikh community. The leaders including L K Advani and Sushma Swaraj, who came together at the initiative of Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal, demanded an independent and impartial probe through a Special Investigation Team in the 1984 'sikh genocide'. They also demanded that the investigation be monitored by the Supreme Court and that the role of police officers in the riots be also probed, as to how they did not register FIRs.

Badal presses PM for SIT probe New Delhi (Agencies): Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to press for a Supreme Court-monitored SIT probe into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases in New Delhi. "We want that a Special Investigation Team be formed and it should probe the cases under the supervision of the Supreme Court," he said. There are so many cases on which no action has been taken like the Nangloi case which has been pending for 25 years," he told reporters after meeting the Prime Minister. Badal, who was accompanied by his son and state deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, said his party has demanded that Government should not appoint its counsels for arguing the cases related to anti-Sikh riots.