S.S. Jog

S.S. Jog was the Commissioner of Police of Delhi in the weeks and months after the Tesra Ghallughara, the killing of Sikhs in Delhi that followed Indira Gandhi's assassination on 31 October 1984. He took over from Subhash Tandon, who the Kusum Lata Mittal Committee says relinquished charge as Police Commissioner on 12 November 1984. Wikipedia's list of Delhi's police commissioners dates Jog's term from November 1984 to April 1985, with Ved Marwah taking over from him.

He is known from the inquiry reports, which show what reached the Commissioner's desk.

• 11 and 13 November 1984: the Kusum Lata Mittal Committee quotes a letter of these dates from Additional Commissioner H.C. Jatav addressed to "Shri S.S. Jog, Police Commissioner" (para 4.7).
• 23 November 1984: Ahal Singh, a retired government officer who had worked to help the victims, says in an affidavit the committee cites that he complained to Commissioner Jog that day, gave him a complete picture and warned that the sketchy first information reports would not do, because they were inadequate for registering cases (para 6.53).
• 25 November 1984: the Delhi Administration set up the Marwah Inquiry into the failures of individual police officers, the Misra Commission reports.
• 7 December 1984: the committee quotes a letter of this date from the chief security officer of Northern Railway to Jog, which it says brought out the unauthorised stopping of trains and the killing of about 160 Sikh passengers on 1 and 2 November (para 9.2).

The committee also records (para 6.90) that a complaint addressed to him by M.S. Sidhu of the Sikh Samaj Sudhar Sabha, asking for a murder case against police officers at Najafgarh over a triple murder, was enquired into by the Police Commissioner's Special Enquiry Cell. It says the statements the police recorded indicate that the complaint was "prima facie correct".

The Misra Commission records that the Marwah Inquiry was held up by a court order. In a suit (No. 677/85) filed by Chander Prakash and Sewa Das, the Deputy Commissioners in charge of South and East Delhi in November 1984, the High Court restrained Marwah and "Shri Jog (Police Commissioner)", the first and second defendants, from publishing the inquiry report or sending it to the Lt. Governor or the Union of India for action against the two officers. Misra dates the order 25 November 1985, and says the criticism of the Administration for accepting the injunction "seems to be justified".

In the passages we read he is named only as the officer to whom letters and complaints were sent and as a defendant in that suit; the reports record no finding about his own conduct. The accounts do not all agree on dates, and none says when he left the post.