Powerful Protectors THOSE still willing to give the Congress(I) the benefit of doubt regarding its complicity in the 1984 killing of Sikhs should shed their illusions. The bureaucrat-turned Congress(I) politician Romesh Bhandari, who is Lt Governor of Delhi, has turned down a recommendation made by the Jain-Banerjee Committee to appeal against the acquittal of several people accused of killing five Sikhs in West Delhi in November 1984.