The Justice Nanavati Commission, which probed the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi, submitted its report to the government on Wednesday.

Justice G T Nanavati, a retired Supreme Court judge, submitted the over 200-page report to Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil.

"It is for the government to make it public and take action on the basis of the recommendations given in the report," Nanavati said.

The report gives its findings about the causes and course of the violence against Sikhs following the then prime minister Indira Gandhi's [Images] assassination.

The commission also speaks of how the riots could have been averted.

It goes into the question of lapses or dereliction of duty on the part of officers and political figures responsible for maintenance of law and order in the city.

The report could not be given on January 31, the day the commission's term expired, as the home minister was in the Northeast.

The panel is the second judicial body to probe the case.

In the carnage that gripped the capital for 3-4 days from the evening of October 31, over 3,000 Sikhs were killed.

The previous National Democratic Alliance government, of which the Akali Dal was a prominent constituent, had appointed the commission in 1999.