Prayagraj, March 26 -- The Allahabad high court has rejected petitions filed by nine accused seeking quashing of criminal proceedings initiated against them pertaining to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Kanpur. Describing the mass violence following the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as a 'genocide' and a 'crime against humanity', the high court said that delay in recording witness statements and the unavailability of original police records cannot be grounds to quash the proceedings. Justice Anish Kumar Gupta on March 24 dismissed a bunch of petitions filed by the accused seeking quashing of criminal proceedings pending against them before the chief judicial magistrate, Kanpur Nagar.P9...