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1984 riot victims give memorandum to ADC

LUDHIANA: Irked at the failure of the administration regarding issuance of red cards for victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots, many of the affected people met additional deputy commissioner SR Klair on Monday and submitted a memorandum. They said the last date for the cards’ issuance was August 31, but till now, nothing had been done »

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Noose tightens around Sajjan: ‘Ex-Congress MP incited mob to kill Sikhs’

Delhi, India: Twenty-five years after the 1984 Sikh Genocide, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today filed two separate chargesheets against former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar, blaming him for two of the “murders” 25 years ago. Twelve others – including Sajjan’s relative Balwan Khokkar – have also been charged for the crimes. The CBI has »

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Shekhar Kapur remembers 1984 massacre

New Delhi, India: Moved by renowned journalist Rahul Bedi’s recent recollection of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, internationally acclaimed Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur has come out with his own memories of the ’savagery’. ‘How does a city descend into savagery? A city I was brought up in – my own Sikh friends hiding with their families »

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1984 Sikh Genocide case: Trial court rejects CBI claims

New Delhi, India: A trial court on Tuesday dismissed the CBI’s contention that it was not under a metropolitan magistrate’s jurisdiction to decide on the agency’s probe report giving clean chit to former Union minister Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. After almost five months of gruelling arguments with CBI questioning the jurisdiction »

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Sikh body to knock UN door in 1984 Sikh genocide case

Amritsar, Punjab: The All India Sikh Students’ Federation (AISSF) and US-based organization Sikhs for Justice has jointly initiated a campaign to record the statements of the victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots by making a video film so as to present it to the UN for creating international pressure on the Indian government to seek justice. »

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