Without issuing notice, a bench headed by Justice A K Patnaik granted two weeks to the human rights activist, who filed the petition, to place before it Justice G T Nanavati Commission report which had conducted detailed enquiry into the sequence of events leading to the riots after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 30, 1984.
Senior advocate Sunil Sethi, who appeared for the petitioner, sought to constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the series of events that led to the "1984 massacre of Sikh community".
"Conduct detailed enquiry and investigation so as to charge those responsible for causing, perpetrating, abetting, spreading and influencing the 1984 riots and commission of several crimes connected to the said riots.
"To register cases based on the outcome of such enquiry and investigation and to prosecute those who are charged," the petition filed through advocate Senile Fernandes said.
Wazir, former President of the Sikh Gurudwara Prabandhak Board of the Jammu and Kashmir, sought ex gratia compensation be granted to the families of the victims who lost their lives and other affected persons who had suffered several damage to their properties.