New Delhi: The Delhi High Court yesterday issued notice to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on a plea of kin of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims, challenging his acquittal in a case.
A division bench of Justice G S Sistani and Justice G P Mittal has sought response from both SDajjan Kumar and the CBI by August 27.
Filing the appeal, Jagdish Kaur and Nirpreet Kaur, who had lost their relatives in the riots, sought the trial court’s April 30 judgment in the case be set aside.
The plea said the trial court failed to appreciate the large body of legally admissible evidence in its verdict.
The trial court April 30 acquitted Sajjan Kumar in a case related to the killing of five people in Delhi Cantonment area during violence against the Sikhs following the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984.
“The verdict was erroneous as the trial court had failed to appreciate that there was ample legally admissible evidence against Kumar to show that he had allegedly engineered the murders of five Sikh persons in Raj Nagar area of Delhi Cantonment,” the plea said.
Congress core panel to meet
on Telangana
Hyderabad: With two days to go for the Congress core committee’s crucial meeting on Telangana, anxiety is growing in all three regions of Andhra Pradesh.
The chief minister, deputy chief minister and state Congress chief intensified consultations with party leaders from all regions to finalise their reports to the core committee.
At the same time, a group fighting to keep the state united has called for a shutdown tomorrow in Seemandhra (Rayalaseema and Andhra regions).
Samaikya Andhra or United Andhra students Joint Action Committee (JAC) has called for the shutdown on the day when the core committee is likely to meet in Delhi to decide on the long-pending demand for a Telangana state.
IANS
