A judicial panel set up to probe afresh the 1984 anti-Sikh violence will submit its report to the government this week, officials said Sunday.

This is the second judicial panel report on the 1984 riots, triggered following the Oct 31 assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi. Over 2,700 members of the Sikh community were killed in violence over three days.

The Ranganath Misra commission, appointed in 1985 by former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi to probe the riots, submitted its report in 1986.

Retired Supreme Court judge G.T. Nanavati heads the new commission set up by the previous National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in 1999. Its term ends Monday.

Officials said Nanavati would submit his report to Home Minister Shivraj Patil this week. Patil is currently away on a tour of the northeastern states.

Late prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, who was home minister in 1984, central minister Jagdish Tytler and Congress MP Sajjan Kumar were among those who deposed before the Nanavati panel.

It probed various aspects of the riots, including allegations that Rao as the home minister had failed to act in time to stop the carnage.