It has been 35 years since the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that broke out after the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards claimed over 2,700 lives in Delhi. On January 11, 2018, the Supreme Court constituted a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) under former Delhi High Court judge, Justice S.N. Dhingra, to examine if cases linked to the riots, closed for want of evidence or due to shoddy investigation, could be re-opened. The report of the SIT was submitted by the Centre to the Supreme Court in sealed covers in November last. The Centre has now informed the Supreme Court that it has accepted recommendations of the SIT.