1984 Delhi Sikh Genocide - Affidavits

Affidavit submitted before the Misra Commission

I, Monish Sanjay Suri, S/o Late B.N. Suri, aged 29 years residing at P-4, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi, and working as a staff reporter with the Indian Express, do hereby solemnly affirm and state as under:

1. On the evening of November 2, I went to Durgapura Chowk along with the Statesman reporter Joydeep Gupta. We were told that the Prime Minister, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, would be visiting the area. All security arrangements had been made. Two senior officers of the Prime Minister's security, Mr. Hari Pillai and Mr. Ajay Aggarwal were there to make arrangements.

2. Before the Prime Minister could come I visited the gurdwara at Durgapura, where some frightened refugees were crowded. They begged us to arrange for some food for them. There were bodies of Sikhs all around, in the area for a long distance. I was told many more had been removed because the PW was to come, but even on the main road, under the wreckage of a truck Joydeep Gupta and I saw a half burnt body being eaten by a dog..

3. Barely 50 yards from the body I met the East Delhi, DCP, Mr. Sewa Das, who had come there in time for the pm's scheduled visit. I asked him what had happened in the area. His reply was that all day in the district there had been only two deaths. He said this at a time when at least a dozen bodies could be seen around within 100 meters radius.

4. Mr. Sewa Dass said a bunch of Sikhs from the Gurdwara had attacked an innocent crowd outside, killing a girl. So naturally, he said, they hit back and one Sikh had been killed. He said Sikhs had fortified themselves at Durgapura gurdwara which I had just visited.

5. What Mr. Sewa Dass said was such obvious lies that I wonder why he said it at all. But he spoke of Sikhs as the aggressors in a context when that was visibly not the case. It indicated a communal bent of mind so powerful as to make him blind to facts all around. Given the attitude that this indicates, he could not have acted as an impartial police officer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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