{"id":49640,"date":"2017-09-01T08:32:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T03:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=49640"},"modified":"2017-09-01T08:32:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T03:02:04","slug":"sc-panel-examine-sit-decision-close-anti-sikh-riot-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-panel-examine-sit-decision-close-anti-sikh-riot-case","title":{"rendered":"SC panel to examine SIT decision to close anti-Sikh riot case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47261\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/sikh-rots.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"47261\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/1984-riots-court-pulls-police-not-completing-probe\/sikh-rots\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/sikh-rots.jpg?fit=759%2C422&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"759,422\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sikh-rots\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/sikh-rots.jpg?fit=640%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-47261 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/sikh-rots.jpg?resize=300%2C167&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SC panel to examine SIT decision to close anti-Sikh riot case\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/sikh-rots.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/sikh-rots.jpg?resize=150%2C83&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/sikh-rots.jpg?w=759&amp;ssl=1 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SC panel to examine SIT decision to close anti-Sikh riot case<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Supreme Court has constituted a supervisory body comprising two of its former judges to examine the decision of the SIT to close 199 cases relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court named its former judges, Justice J M Panchal and Justice K S P Radhakrishnan, as members of the supervisory body and asked them to start functioning from September 5.<\/p>\n<p>The court said the supervisory body would scrutinise the Special Investigation Team&#8217;s (SIT) decision to close 199 riots related cases and would also examine whether it was justified.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We constitute a supervisory body of two former judges of this court, namely Justice J M Panchal and Justice K S P Radhakrishnan, who shall scrutinise the 199 matters which have been closed and express the view whether there was justification to close the cases,&#8221; a bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra said in its order of August 16, before he was elevated as the Chief Justice of India.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court, in the order uploaded today, asked the panel to file a report in the matter within three months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The supervisory body is requested to file a report within three months. The said supervising body shall be given requisite assistance which the Union of India shall provide.<\/p>\n<p>The supervisory body shall start functioning from September 5, 2017. The members of the said body shall get all the financial benefits as permissible in law,&#8221; the bench said.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court had on March 24 asked the Centre to place before it the files pertaining to the 199 cases of the anti- Sikh riots which the SIT, set up by the Home Ministry, had decided to close.<\/p>\n<p>The SIT is headed by Pramod Asthana, an IPS officer of 1986 batch, and has Rakesh Kapoor, a retired district and sessions judge, besides Kumar Gyanesh, an additional deputy commissioner of Delhi Police, as its members.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-Sikh riots that broke out after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had claimed 2,733 lives in Delhi alone.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has constituted a supervisory body comprising two of its former judges to examine the decision of the SIT to close 199 cases relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. 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