Had the guilty been punished for 1984, there would have been no gujrat,dadri incidents, says Arvind kejriwal.

On the 31st anniversary of the anti-Sikh riots, the chief minister along with his deputy Manish Sisodia distributed enhanced compensation cheques of Rs 5 lakh each to over 1,300 families who lost their loved ones in the violence that erupted in the aftermath of the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and paid homage to the victims.

"If those guilty in the 1984 riots were punished in the past 31 years, then incidents like those in Gujarat and Dadri would not have happened.

"No one would have dared to spread hatred among people on basis of religion and such intolerance would not have spread in the country," the chief minister said after distributing the cheques in West Delhi's Tilak Vihar here.

The chief minister also claimed that "intolerance and hatred is thriving because those perpetrating it know that those in power will protect them".