Terming the manner in which the report was disposed of as a violation of all democratic norms, Singh said that the convention that was being laid down by such arbitrary action was that the ruling party could summarily throw away any indictment against itself even if it was by a duly constituted body.

``What relief is there to victims if perpetrators of crime have the powers to decide on the validity of their indictment?'' he said, adding that Parliament should deliberate on the issue and think of a just and effective solution for such cases. Otherwise, there would be disempowerment of the people vis a vis the executive.

Singh recalled the ``blatant example'' of the Congress regime which rejected the unanimous indictment of its ministers by a parliamentary committee. ``I had even then warned the Congress that this will lay the foundations for others to follow suit. Now we have the burial of the Sri Krishna Committee Report. If nothing is done right now it will become the standard practice in future. What will happen to democratic norms?'' he said.

The report had rightly indicted extremists of both sides. But the most chilling part of the report was the role of the State apparatus, especially the State police and its allied forces. ``If these forces are allowed to become partisan and brutalised what is the hope of fair play and justice?'' he said.

``What has happened is just a glimpse of what authoritarian psyche can do,'' he remarked.