The same script was played repeatedly. The Bombay High Court ordered an inquiry against sub-inspector Nikhil Kapse in December 2008. Sri Krishna Commission found him responsible for shooting Namajin (Muslim devotees) inside the Hari Masjid, six died on 10 January 1993.
The STF provoked Kapase even without talking to the victims. While the CBI spoke to the victims, it chose them to mistrust and shut down the case in 2011. The Maharashtra government did not appeal, such as it did not appeal in 2003 against the discharge of RD Tyagi and nine of his co-involved police. In fact, it ensures that the tyg was appointed to handle the case. In both cases, individual victims were abandoned to appeal, but to no avail.
Last week, in an interview after Sajjan Kumar’s sentence, HS Phoolka, Advocate, continuously talked about the cover-up of those crimes by the governments, while continuously chasing the 1984 criminals from Delhi. Despite a long battle for a decades, only 50–60 criminals have been punished for the massacre of 2,736 Sikhs, they said.
Two Special Magistrate’s courts – where neither the magistrate nor the PPS was given copies of the report of the Sri Krishna Commission – heard the riot cases and sentenced in six out of 120 cases.
As it could, this was the first time when the Shiva soldier was actually punished what he always did: to target Muslims through words and actions. However, except for the sarpoter and his co-accused, the rest was acquitted by the sessions court.
