India, July 25 -- The Supreme Court on Friday told the Allahabad high court to expeditiously decide "out of turn" the appeals in the 1984 ant-Sikh riots cases, emphasising that the four-decades-old tragedy was investigated only upon the court's intervention and any further delay would result in evidence of vital witnesses being lost.

The court order came on a public interest litigation filed by the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee that complained about the slow progress of anti-Sikh riots cases in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh and sought the court's intervention to expedite the appeals pending before the high court seeking re-investigation.

"Keeping that in view, and most importantly the fact that with the passage of time, production o...