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Sajjan Kumar, Jagdish Tytler are all over the complaints 

The 1984 anti-Sikh carnage spread through 80 cities of 18 states, including the national capital, which claimed the highest number of  victims. Though official figures put this number at around 2,700 in Delhi, Sikh organizations which probed the matter independently claimed over 5,000 of their community were massacred in the city alone.

The names of Congress politicians like Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar cropped up repeatedly, along with four others, in numerous complaints and affidavits submitted to police and the 10-odd commissions and enquiry committees which probed the issue over the past 25 years. However, no action ever came their way.

While CBI investigations took off finally after the Nanavati commission submitted its report, the Mishra commission of enquiry, set up in 1985, received a number of affidavits naming these leaders — 11 of them.

Sajjan Kumar was named categorically as the instigator and organizer of these attacks.

6 January 2010
 

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