Government intended to punish Sikhs, reveals Cobrapost

Cobrapost interviewed many police officers and also S.C. Tandon, who then headed Delhi Police, and Gautam Kaul, the then additional commissioner of police.

Reacting to the sting, Manoj Mitta, journalist and author of the book "The Fiction of Fact Finding", said these may not be dramatic new revelations but have added great importance to available documentation of the 1984 riots.

Gautam Navlakha, political analyst, said the sting underlined that the lack of justice has been the most important failure of our system, while also blaming the media for it.

"The media of the time created a climate of impunity for rioteers," he said.