Sonia reads the riot act, Shiv Sena up in arms

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New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday asked Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh to submit a full report on the action taken by the state government on the Srikrishna Commission inquiry into the Mumbai riots of 1992-93.

The state government has been under pressure to revive the report, especially after the sentencing in the '93 blasts case.

Sources have told CNN-IBN that Sonia Gandhi was keen to get a full report on why successive governments in Maharashtra had not acted on the Srikrishna Commission Report.

The Congress-NCP government had promised to act on the findings when it came to power in 1999.

The report had indicted 31 policemen and Shiv Sena members for their alleged role in the riots in which more than 900 people were killed.

The Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamna has claimed that the purpose of the exercise is to hang Hindus.

Over 900 people were killed in the two rounds of rioting in December 1992 and in January 1993. In fact the Srikrishna Report named several prominent figures who had co-ordinated the carnage.

"They include the former Joint Commissioner R D Tyagi, Madhukar Sarpotdar the then MLA, the Mayor of Mumbai and Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray,” Counsel for Riot Victims, Srikrishna Commission, Niloufer Bhagwat said.

But successive governments have let the report gather dust. Only one of the 31 policemen who allegedly participated in the riots has been suspended. Also sub-Inspector Nikhil Kapse who was found guilty of killing six innocent Muslims was promoted.

The Army had allegedly found unlicensed guns in the possession the then Shiv Sena MLA Madhukar Sarpotdar, who could have been charged under TADA, but he wasn’t.

However, veteran Police officers say it's unfair to compare convictions rates in the blasts with the riots simply because collecting evidence to prosecute rioters is very difficult.