{"id":309040,"date":"2019-02-06T06:36:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T06:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309040"},"modified":"2019-02-06T06:36:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T06:36:59","slug":"up-government-sets-up-sit-to-probe-1984-anti-sikh-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/up-government-sets-up-sit-to-probe-1984-anti-sikh-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"UP government sets up SIT to probe 1984 anti-sikh riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309041 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/UP-cabinet-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/UP-cabinet-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/UP-cabinet.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Uttar Pradesh government has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the circumstances that led to riots in Kanpur in 1984 following then prime minister Indira Gandhi\u2019s assassination, an official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The four-member SIT, to be headed by former director general of police Atul has been asked to submit its report within six months of tenure, the release said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Other members of the SIT include retired District Judge Subhash Chandra Agarwal and retired Additional Director (Prosecution) Yogeshwar Krishna Srivastava.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 100 people were killed in 1984 riots in Kanpur after the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttar Pradesh government has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the circumstances that led to riots in Kanpur in 1984 following then prime minister Indira Gandhi\u2019s assassination, an official said. The four-member SIT, to be headed by former director general of police Atul has been asked to submit its report within six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":309041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[4429,121,2960],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309042,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309040\/revisions\/309042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}