New Delhi: The Delhi Cabinet on Thursday announced a Special Investigation Team will probe the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
"The Delhi Cabinet has asked the Lieutenant Governor to form a SIT to look into the 1984 riots. Cases which were closed will be opened again and if required, will be filed afresh," said minister Manish Sisodia.
He also said that the constituting members of the SIT will be from outside Delhi.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had recently met the Lieutenant Governor regarding the opening of SIT probe into the communal riots. The CM's move came after an interview by Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi who refused to apologise for the violence.
"First of all, I wasn't involved in the riots at all. It wasn't that I was a part of it," Rahul told the news channel.
Thousands of Sikh men and women were killed during the violence which broke out after the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was shot dead by her Sikh bodyguard.
Thirty years since, only 28 people have been convicted in the case.
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