Please find attached the requested 20 September 1996 India Abroad article entitled "First Death Sentence Given in '84 Anti-Sikh Riots Case." This article updates information provided in Responses to Information Requests IND25162.E of 10 September 1996 and IND23927.E of 29 May 1996, which covered cases relating to the Anti-Sikh riots that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.

India Abroad [Toronto]. 20 September 1996. "First Death Sentence Given in '84 Anti-Sikh Riots Case," p. 20.