Special Investigation Team arrests four men in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case

The arrests were made on June 15 by the SIT, headed by Deputy Inspector General of Police Balendu Bhushan Singh, from the Ghatampur area of Kanpur.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the mass killings during the anti-Sikh riots in 1984, arrested four men accused of setting a building to fire in which three persons were burnt to death, a senior official said on June 16.

The arrests were made on June 15 by the SIT, headed by Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Balendu Bhushan Singh, from the Ghatampur area of Kanpur.

The SIT, constituted by the Uttar Pradesh government on May 27, 2019, on the Orders of the Supreme Court, has been probing the anti-Sikh riots’ cases for the last three years and efforts are on to nab more suspects, DIG Singh told PTI.

“It had identified 96 persons as prime suspects, of which 22 have died. Complete information about 11 suspects was gathered and it helped the SIT to nab four of them,” he said.

The four arrested accused were identified as Saifullah, Yogendra Singh, Vijay Narayan Singh and Abdul Rahman, all sexagenarian residents of the Ghatampur area.

They have been charged under Indian Penal Code Sections 396 (dacoity with murder) and 336 (act endangering life or safety of others), he said, adding they have been sent to jail.