In the wake of the conviction and sentencing of the accused in the Mumbai serial bomb blasts case of March 1993, which had taken a toll of 257 innocent lives, the lack of punishment of the instigators and organisers of the riots of December 1992-January 1993, and of the 31 officials indicted by the Srikrishna Commission, whose connivance caused the killing of more than 900 innocent persons, is being widely discussed in the media and civil society.