Allahabad HC refuses to quash 1984 Kanpur anti-Sikh riot cases

The Allahabad High Court | Sanjay Kanojia/AFP The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday rejected petitions filed by nine persons seeking to quash criminal proceedings related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Kanpur, Live Law reported.Large-scale riots had broken out in early November 1984, following the assassination of Indira Gandhi, who was the prime minister at the time, by her Sikh bodyguards.The High Court on Tuesday described the violence as amounting to a genocide and crimes against humanity.The...