Monday, February 14 2005 11:21 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Yamuna Nagar (Punjab): Amid wide speculation about its contents, Union Law Minister H R Bhardwaj yesterday (Feb 13, 2005) said that the Nanavati Commission report on the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 would be tabled during the coming Budget Session of Parliament.

He was replying to questions posed by journalists when on a visit to Mahakaleshwar Mutt, about 45 km from Yamuna Nagar, for a Basant Panchmi function.

The Sikh community and opposition parties have been demanding that the report be "made public" ever since Justice G T Nanavati, a retired Supreme Court judge, submitted the two-volume, 185-page report to Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil in New Delhi on Wednesday (Feb 9, 2005).

An estimated 3,000 people were killed in the national capital in the anti-Sikh riots that followed Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination on October 31, 1984.

The Commission of Inquiry's report contains findings on whether any political party had organised the riots.