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Anti-Sikh riots: 10 enquiries later, status quo prevails
Published on Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 20:49, Updated on Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:44 in 
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October 31, 1984 Former prime minister, Indira Gandhi was shot dead by two of her Sikh security guards.
What followed next was a communal riot across the country that killed over 3,000 Sikh men, women and children. In Delhi alone, 2,733 Sikhs were killed in riots over three days.
A commission headed by then additional commissioner of police, Ved Marwah, was the first to be appointed in November 1984 to investigate the case.
The Marwah Commission gave way to the Misra Commission in 1985.
The Commission investigated whether the riots were organised or not. Simultaneously, the Dhillon Committee recommended measures for the rehabilitation of the victims.
By 1986, Justice Misra submitted his report along with recommendations to set up three more commissions.
Later, the Kapur-Mittal Commission inquired the role of the police in the riots and the Ahuja Committee ascertained the total number of killings in the national Capital, while the Jain-Banerjee Committee and the successive Potti Rosha Committee recommended registration of cases against Sajjan Kumar in 1987 and 1990.
Congress leader, Jagdish Tytler's involvement in the anti-Sikh riots was for the first time ascertained by Rosha Committee's successor, the Jain-Aggarwal Commission, in 1990.
Tytler's role in engineering the 1984 riots was confirmed by the following Narula committee in 1993.
But the biggest blow to Tytler came in 2004 in the form of Nanavati Commission.
The report said there was "credible evidence" against Jagdish Tytler that he "very probably" had a hand in organising attacks on Sikhs and recommended the Government take further action.
It finally led to Tytler resigning from the Union Cabinet in 2005.
However, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) closed all cases against Jagdish Tytler in November 2007 in the absence of any evidence against him.
But after CNN-IBN traced Jasbir Singh, a key eyewitness against Tytler, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of a Delhi court asked the CBI to re-open all cases against Tytler.
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