New Delhi, Oct 30: Drawing hope from the action initiated by NHRC in the best bakery case, a group of victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots has approached the human rights watchdog seeking its intervention against acquittal of some Congress leaders, allegedly involved in violence, but set free by the trial court for want of evidence. "The complainants are having no hopes from the government to take any action against those persons who have been acquitted due to the lack of evidence.
"It is therefore in the interest of justice that the complainant pray this hon'ble commission to take appropriate steps in the matter by ignoring the technicalities of law for their justice..," the victims under the banner of November 1984 Victim Camps said in their plea before the commission.
They said every efforts to persuade the state to file an appeal against the acquittal had failed.
The victims also prayed the commission to issue directions to the delhi government to rehabilitate those Sikh families which lost their near and dear in the riots that followed the killing of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
"In Delhi itself, there are about 20 to 25 families who have become deaf and dumb due to the shocks received by them in their childhood and now have been denied any suitable help or suitable job on technical ground," they pointed out.
Bureau Report