A city court in Sasaram, Bihar, has acquitted all 27 accused in anti-Sikh riot cases of 1984 in Rohtas district of Bihar for want of evidence.
Additional District and Sessions Judge, Nand Kishore Sharma while acquitting the accused also rapped the police machinery for its failure to produce the four witnesses, which led to their acquittal. The four witnesses, all policemen, did not turn up on behalf of the prosecution despite repeated reminders issued by the court to the SP office and the legal cell department of State’s Crime Department. Following the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, rioters had gone berserk and set on fire a number of shops located on Jhabarmal Gali, Cinema Road on Dehri-on-Sone and GT Road.