Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Badal on Sunday urged Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das to ensure reopening or transfer of all 1984 Sikh massacre cases of Bokaro to the Central Bureau of Investigation.

At the same time, the party chief announced that the SAD would send a team of lawyers from the Supreme Court to study these cases before taking up the matter at the highest level.

Sukhbir, addressing a gurmat samagam as part of the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev at Bokaro in Jharkhand, said that more than 100 Sikhs were brutally killed in Bokaro allegedly at the instance of Congress goons in 1984.

“It is unfortunate that not a single accused has been convicted and punished so far for such a heinous crime against humanity,” he said while urging Jharkhand Chief Minister to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) immediately to reopen all 1984 cases and ensure they are reinvestigated and taken to their logical conclusion. He also appealed to the entire sangat (community) to unite under the banner of SAD to get all wrongs done to the community corrected.

“We will fight for every victim family and justice would be delivered to them at all costs,” said Sukhbir adding that SAD would send a team of lawyers from the Apex Court to Bokaro to thoroughly study all 1984 massacre cases.

Meanwhile, a Sikh delegation of Jharkhand met the SAD president at Ranchi early in the morning and urged him to expand the Akali Dal by creating a unit of the party in their state. They described the SAD as the only political party that represents the Sikhs across the country.