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Riot survivors seek implementation of Srikrishna panel’s report

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NEW DELHI: In a bid to build pressure for the implementation of the Srikrishna Commission Report, a group of 1993 Mumbai riot survivors have come to the Capital to draw attention to the fact that justice has not been done in the 14 years that have passed.

Along with activists, the survivors sought to highlight the fact that the recent assurances of the Congress-led Maharashtra Government vis-À-vis the implementation of recommendations of the report had come to naught.

“A farce”

“Recent assurances by the Vilasrao Deshmukh government and the Central Government of setting up special courts to which pending cases would be transferred are a farce and fail to address the real issues related to justice and accountability for the 1992-93 communal violence,” the survivors said in a statement.

“Shielding perpetrators”

According to the statement, successive State governments had shielded the perpetrators of the communal violence and justice had eluded the minority community till date.

Further, it was pointed out that the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Shiv Sena and the Congress have been party to communal violence.

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