Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday appreciated Home Minister Rajnath Singh for resolve to bring the perpetrators of the 1984 Sikh massacres to book by referring new disclosures in the case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler to SIT Chairman Justice (retired) SN Dhingra for investigation.
Talking to reporters, the SAD president said, “The wheels of justice have finally started moving against Jagdish Tytler as well as other genocide perpetrators. Even the role of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi will be under the scanner for the first time because new evidence links him directly with the Congress leaders who led mobs which butchered Sikhs in Delhi. This is a big victory for the massacre victims who have been waiting for justice since 33 years.”
The SAD president said the Union Government has written to the SIT Chairman to investigate new facts which have emerged after Jagdish Tytler’s disclosure to a TV channel that he had travelled with Rajiv Gandhi in a car on November 1, 1984, in specific areas of Delhi where Sikhs were attacked and massacred.
The SAD president said Rajnath Singh had informed union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal about the development personally and disclosed that action was being taken in the matter after receipt of a letter on this issue from Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) president Manjit Singh GK.