Kanpur: Kanpur in UP suffered the brunt of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, by which 127 folks had been brutally murdered. The rioters looted homes and retail outlets and set them on hearth. Even after 38 years, justice has no longer been given to people who misplaced their lives within the anti-Sikh riots. The SIT, set as much as examine the anti-Sikh riots, arrested two extra accused on Wednesday. SIT has already arrested 6 accused from Ghatampur space.
Anti-Sikh riots broke out in Kanpur after the assassination of the then High Minister Indira Gandhi, by which 127 Sikhs had been brutally murdered. As a way to supply justice to people who misplaced their lives within the riots, the state executive had constituted the SIT on 27 Might 2019 below the chairmanship of former DGP Atul Kumar. When the SIT began the investigation, it got here to grasp that 40 instances had been registered within the homicide of 127 Sikhs. Proof of 14 instances has been discovered within the investigation of SIT which lasted for 3 years, whilst fee sheet is to be filed in 09 instances. Of the 94 accused known, 74 are alive. 20 accused have died, by which statements of 147 folks had been given.
SIT raided Naubasta and arrested two accused. Each the accused had been a part of the mob that attacked Namdev Gurdwara. On this incident, two folks together with the servant had been killed. The SIT workforce has arrested Siddhgopal Gupta alias Bablu and Yashoda Nagar resident Jitendra Kumar Tiwari from the block of Kidwai Nagar.
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