Garg Commission

What it is: The Garg Commission was a one-member commission of inquiry set up by the Haryana government under Justice T. P. Garg, a retired High Court judge. The Tribune reported that Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced it on 5 March 2011, to inquire into the killing of Sikhs in November 1984 at Hondh-Chillar village in Rewari district and the damage to their property, with a six-month limit and headquarters at Hisar. The Tribune's 2011 report spoke of over 20 Sikhs killed there; the Indian Express puts the dead at 32.

How its remit grew: In April 2012 the Punjab and Haryana High Court ruled that the commission's reference should be widened to take in claims from Gurgaon district, including Pataudi. The state decided on 12 December 2012 to include Pataudi and Gurgaon and told the court on 18 December. It did not reopen cases the Nanavati Commission had already examined.

Its reports

• The Tribune reported on 28 March 2015 that the commission had submitted its recommendations on Hondh-Chillar to the Haryana government the day before, and that they dealt mainly with compensation.
• The Indian Express reported that a 300-page report on Gurgaon and Pataudi went to the government on 29 April 2016 and was not made public. It covered 24 deaths in Gurgaon and 12 in Pataudi, after 109 sittings and the hearing of 384 witnesses. It recommended Rs 12.07 crore: Rs 5.75 crore for the 36 deaths, Rs 26 lakh for two injuries, Rs 4.80 crore for loss of homes in 96 cases, Rs 1.21 crore for commercial property in 84 cases and Rs 5 lakh for two gurdwaras.
• Scroll reported on 27 July 2016 that the government under Manohar Lal Khattar approved the Rs 12.07 crore, and The Tribune that 42 victims received cheques on 28 August 2016 at a gurdwara in Gurgaon.

Reaction: After the 2015 report, the president of the All India Sikh Students Federation, Karnail Singh Peermohammed, said the families wanted the killers identified and prosecuted and that the commission seemed to have left that out. Dal Khalsa's spokesperson, Kanwar Pal Singh, said "Compensation sans justice means nothing". The Akal Takht Jathedar, Giani Gurbachan Singh, said compensation alone was not enough and that those who conspired to kill Sikhs should be traced and punished.

Key moments

• 5 March 2011: commission announced.
• December 2012: scope widened to Gurgaon and Pataudi.
• March 2015: Hondh-Chillar recommendations submitted.
• 29 April 2016: Gurgaon and Pataudi report submitted.
• July and August 2016: compensation approved and paid.

Where it stands: Its reports led to compensation 32 years after the killings, but the 2016 report has not been made public and, in the Sikh bodies' account, left out the question of who killed the victims.