New Delhi, Jul 16: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed Congress leader Sajjan Kumar’s plea against a trial court order framing charges against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case relating to the killings of six persons.
The court also dismissed a plea by riot victim Sheela Kaur to frame conspiracy charge against the Congress leader and four others in the case.
Besides Mr. Kumar, co-accused Ved Prakash Pial alias Vedu Pradhan, and Brahmanand Gupta had also moved the High Court against framing of charges against them in the case relating to killings in Delhi’s Sultanpuri area.
Justice Suresh Kait, who had deferred the pronouncement of the verdict on April 29, 2013 saying further hearing was required, had again reserved the verdict on May 24 after the counsel for the riots victim sought framing of the additional charge of criminal conspiracy against Kumar and the co-accused.
In July 2010, a lower court had framed charges against Mr. Kumar, Mr. Gupta, Peru, Khushal Singh and Pial in connection with the case in which six persons were killed in Sultanpuri in anti-Sikhs riots that had erupted in Delhi and elsewhere after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984.
Besides charges of murder and rioting, the court had also framed charges for the offence of spreading enmity between two communities against the accused in the case.
CBI had filed two charge sheets against Mr. Kumar and others in January 2010 in the riots cases registered in 2005 on the recommendation of Justice G.T. Nanavati Commission which probed the sequence of events leading to the riots.
A lower court had recently acquitted Mr. Kumar in another 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
However, five other co-accused were held guilty for being a part of the mob that killed five Sikhs at Delhi Cantonment.
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