The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has expanded the ambit of the SIT to reinvestigate or further investigate cases in which the accused were discharged or acquitted. The seven anti-Sikh riot cases were registered in 1984 at the police stations in Vasant Vihar, Sun Light Colony, Kalyanpuri, Parliament Street, Connaught Place, Patel Nagar and Shahdara.
While the SIT under the Union Home Ministry has decided to reopen investigations in seven anti-Sikh riot cases of 1984 in which trial had been completed and cases closed as the accused were discharged. Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Delhi MLA and general secretary of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, said the police never investigated Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath in the Parliament Street case. Mr. Nath was a senior Congress leader then.
