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http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130105/punjab.htm#17 ANTI-SIKH RIOTS SC turns down plea for relief to 200 families Legal Correspondent New Delhi, January 4 The Supreme Court today dismissed a petition of a New York-based organisation, Sikhs for Justice, pleading for rehabilitation of about 200 families in Chandigarh affected by the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. A Bench comprising Justices GS Singhvi and Gyan Sudha Misra, however, clarified that the riot-hit families were free to seek appropriate remedy for their grievances. Arguing for the organisation, senior counsel Colin Gonsalves said these families were given Rs 3 lakh as relief and nothing more. The petition sought jobs and free ration for the victims on the lines of the rehabilitation package offered to migrant Kashmiri pandits affected by militancy in Jammu and Kashmir. Those affected are certainly entitled to seek redress. You are a foreign body altogether as even your members are not Indians, the Bench noted. Gonsalves said his client had taken up a number of similar cases at the international level and that was why he had agreed to appear for the organisation. During arguments, the Bench asked as to whether the organisation was involved in terrorist activities in Punjab in the 1980s.