Not even after previous inquiries have told us in no uncertain terms who the powerful men were who instigated the killing. Yes, we know from those inquiry reports just what men like HKL Bhagat, Sajjan Kumar, Lalit Maken and Jagdish Tytler were up to in November 1984. We know it, too, from the few private cases against some of these men that have made it to courtrooms. Yet all these years later, Bhagat, Kumar and Tytler are not only free and unpunished, with no prospect of that changing anytime soon, they are even protected by taxpayer-paid squads of gunmen. And now we will have yet another inquiry, this one by ex-Justice of the Supreme Court GT Nanavati, to tell us what we already know.
Commissions of inquiry are long, expensive exercises in futility and distraction, that's all.
Where governments fully intend to take none. Except for two. I'm sure they are feeling extremely confident today, and more so now that Justice Nanavati will conduct another inquiry. Perhaps there was a time, many years ago, when they and all of us had faith that an inquiry would lead to penal action against those it found guilty. Only an idiot would keep that faith.