India, Sept. 2 -- New Delhi

The Delhi High Court on Monday granted the trial court handling the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases four weeks to submit its report on the reconstruction of four-decade-old records on the acquittal of five men, including former Congress councillor Balwan Khokhar.

The five men were acquitted in the murder of four Sikhs in Ghaziabad's Raj Nagar. The murders took place on November 1, 1984, a day after then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination. Three women had alleged that their husbands and son were burnt alive. In 1986, the trial court acquitted Khokhar and four others, citing lack of evidence.

The direction was issued after a bench comprising justices Subramonium Prasad and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar was ...