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SC Issues Notice To CBI On Sajjan Kumar’s Plea Against Conviction

Darpan News Desk IANS, 14 Jan, 2019 09:26 PM

    The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the CBI on former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar’s petition challenging the Delhi High Court’s verdict sentencing him to life imprisonment in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.


    A Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it would consider after six weeks Kumar’s plea for suspension of sentence and grant of bail pending final adjudication of his appeal against the conviction order.


    Kumar (73) had moved the Supreme Court on December 22 against the Delhi High Court’s verdict convicting him and awarding life imprisonment in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.


    He had surrendered on December 31 after the Delhi High Court rejected his plea for extension of time till January 30 to surrender for serving the sentence.


    Bringing to justice the first-ever senior Congress functionary for his role in the 1984 Sikh carnage, the Delhi High Court had on December 17 convicted former MP Sajjan Kumar of criminal conspiracy to murder five people of the minority community and sentenced him to imprisonment for the rest of his natural life.


    The case related to killing of five Sikhs in Raj Nagar part-I area in Palam Colony in South West Delhi on November 1 and 2, 1984, and burning down a gurdwara in Raj Nagar part II during that period.


    Reversing Sajjan Kumar’s April 30, 2013 acquittal order passed by Delhi’s Karkardooma Courts, in the case pertaining to the killing of five members of a Sikh family in Delhi Cantonment’s Raj Nagar on November 1 and 2, 1984, a Delhi High Court Bench headed by Justice S Muralidhar had said the trial court failed to address the charges of criminal conspiracy against Kumar.


    “The criminals escaped prosecution and punishment for over two decades. It took as many as 10 committees and commissions for the investigation into the role of some of them to be entrusted in 2005 to the CBI, 21 years after the occurrence,” the HC had said.


    Six accused, including Kumar, were sent for trial in 2010. Three years later, the lower court convicted five of the accused but acquitted him of all the charges.


    The high court had upheld the conviction and varying sentences awarded by the trial court to the other five--former Congress councillor Balwan Khokhar, retired naval officer Captain Bhagmal, Girdhari Lal and former MLAs Mahender Yadav and Kishan Khokhar.


    It also convicted them of criminal conspiracy to burn down residences of Sikh families and a gurdwara in the area during the riots.


    The trial court in 2013 had awarded life term to Khokhar, Bhagmal and Lal, and a three-year jail term to Yadav and Kishan Khokhar.


    Following the high court verdict, the life term of Khokhar, Bhagmal and Lal has been upheld, and the sentence of Yadav and Kishan Khokar has been enhanced to 10 years in jail.


    All six, including Kumar, have surrendered and are serving their respective sentence.

     

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