1984 Riots

1984 riots: CBI's reply sought on ex-councillor's plea to suspend sentence

The Supreme Court has sought a response from the CBI on a petition filed by former Congress councillor Balwan Khokhar, serving life imprisonment in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, seeking suspension of his life sentence. A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and Rajesh Bindal asked Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati to get certificates from jail authorities on the convict's conduct and behaviour. Bhati told the court that Khokhar's bail was rejected on three occasions in the past. Besides Khokhar, former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar is serving life term in the case. Ex-MLA Mahender Yadav, who was sentenced to imprisonment for 10 years, died of Covid in Mandoli jail. Kumar and Khokhar have been lodged in Tihar jail since their conviction on December 17, 2018. The Delhi High Court upheld Khokhar's sentence in 2018 and overturned Kumar's acquittal by the trial court in 2013. The case is related to the killing of five Sikhs in Raj Nagar Part-I in Palam Colony in southwest Delhi on ..

Canadian MP Arya stands against motion to declare 1984 riots as genocide

Canadian MP also highlighted the ongoing threats and pressure he faces for voicing concerns of the Hindu-Canadian community

Sensex to GDP: How India looked when a party won 400 seats the last time

If the BJP secures over 400 seats in the Lok Sabha, it will be the second party to do so after Congress, which won 414 seats in 1984 after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi

NCM asks states on action taken for granting compensation to 1984 victims

The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) on Wednesday held a virtual meeting with chief secretaries, home secretaries and minority department secretaries of Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, and eight states on action taken by them for granting compensation to the 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims. The riots broke out after the then prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984. NCM chairperson Iqbal Singh Lalpura, members Syed Shahezadi and Rinchen Lhamo, and commission officials held the meeting with chief secretaries, home secretaries, secretaries of Minority Affairs Department of Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Haryana, Delhi, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Odisha, and Jammu and Kashmir, a statement issued by the commission said. During the meeting, the action taken by the governments for granting relief, compensation and justice to the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots was discussed, it said. The commission had sought informatio

Delhi court grants anticipatory bail to Jagdish Tytler in 1984 riot case

Additional sessions judge Vikas Dhull directed Tytler not to tamper with the evidence or get in touch with or influence witnesses in the case

Court did not consider Sajjan Kumar's conviction while granting bail: SIT

After hearing the arguments of the counsel the high court listed the matter for further hearing on November 20, 2023

1984 riots: CBI court summons trial court records in Pul Bangash case

The CBI earlier filed a supplementary charge sheet against Tytler in the matter

Why no documentary on 1984 riots in Delhi, asks EAM S Jaishankar

He termed the documentary as politics at play by people who don't have courage to come into the political field

1984 marks one of 'darkest' years in modern Indian history: US senator

The anti-Sikh riots of 1984 marks one of the darkest years in modern Indian history, a US senator has said, as underlined the need to remember the atrocities committed against Sikhs so that those responsible may be held accountable. Violence erupted in Delhi and other parts of the country after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984. Over 3,000 Sikhs were killed across India, mostly in the national capital. 1984 marks one of the darkest years in modern Indian history. The world watched as several violent incidents broke out among ethnic groups in India, with several notably targeting the Sikh community, Senator Pat Toomey said in his speech on the Senate floor. Today we are here to remember the tragedy that commenced on November 1, 1984, following decades of ethnic tension between Sikhs in the Punjab province and the central Indian Government, he said. As so often in such cases, the official estimates likely do not tell the .

Policy for 1984 riots victims seeks preference, not employment: HC

The Delhi High Court has refused to grant relief to a woman who sought employment for families of the 1984 riots, saying the scheme only envisages that preference should be given during recruitment

SC refuses to entertain bail plea of Covid-19 positive convict in 1984 case

The Supreme Court refused to entertain a plea for interim bail of convict and former MLA Mahender Yadav, serving 10 years jail term in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case

Narasimha Rao's grandson protests Manmohan's remark on 1984 riots

If Manmohan Singh felt uncomfortable that the Sikh riots happened in 1984, he should have protested and should not have joined the PV Narasimha Rao cabinet as the Finance Minister, he said

Javadekar hits out at Manmohan, says Rajiv Gandhi supported 1984 massacre

Javadekar questioned Singh why he went on to become a Finance Minister in a Cabinet headed by Narsimha Rao, if he had such adverse feelings about him

1984 riots could've been avoided if Rao listened to Gujral: Manmohan Singh

Gujral was the 12th Prime Minister of India between April 1997 and March 1998

Pragya Thakur reminds Congress of 1984 riots after MLA's threat to burn her

Thakur is in the midst of a row over her remark about Godse, Mahatma Gandhi's assassin, during a discussion in the Lok Sabha on November 27 which left the BJP red-faced

1984 anti-Sikh riots: Probe complete, Centre seeks SC nod to disband SIT

The SIT was set up by the apex court on January 11 last year to supervise further investigation into 186 riots cases, in which closure reports were filed earlier

The 1984 riots: 'An excavation of memory'

The riot creeps in like a mishap that ruins a thoroughly enjoyable trip, and disorients everyone who is a part of it, says Radhika Oberoi

Sauce for the goose...

If the grisly events of 1984 can be re-examined, so can the Gujarat bloodbath of 2002

Someone facing charges in 1984 riots is going to become MP CM: SAD leader

The member Prem Singh Chandumajra made the remarks during the Zero Hour, soon after the Delhi High Court sentenced Congress leader Sajjan Kumar to life imprisonment in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case

Akali member in Lok sabha accuses Jagdish Tytler for buying witnesses

Prem Singh Chandumajra claimed that Tytler is allegedly responsible for killing of one Badal Singh, a Granthi of Pul Bangash Gurdwara during the 1984 genocide