Monday, January 31 2005 15:34 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Justice G T Nanavati, who led the one-man inquiry commission probing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, will submit his report to Home Minister Shivraj Patil after he comes back from his visit of the North East.

"I will submit the report to the Home Minister," Nanavati said today (Jan 31, 2005) when contacted.

Patil, currently away on a tour of the North East, is scheduled to return to the capital on February 2.

The report of the Commission assumes significance, as this was the second judicial body to probe the sequence of events that led to large-scale violence against the Sikh community in the aftermath of assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984.

Over 3,000 Sikhs were killed in the riots that gripped the capital for three-four days after her assassination.

The Commission, whose term expires today, was appointed by the previous NDA (National Democratic Alliance) Government in 1999.

It went into a number of allegations leveled against several Congress leaders over their involvement in the riots.

Akali Dal was a prominent constituent of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led Government.

Prominent among the Congress leaders who deposed before the Commission included former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao for his role as then Home Minister, while Vasant Sathe, Kamal Nath, Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar and Dharamdas Shastri faced allegations.