Friday, October 22, 2010

Order deferred in 1984 riots case

NEW DELHI: A trial court on Thursday deferred till Saturday the pronouncement of order on the fate of a chargesheet, which was prepared by the Delhi police in 1992 but was never filed before the court.

District judge S K Sarvaria, who was to pronounce the order on an application filed by the prosecutor seeking a direction with regard to the chargesheet against the former outer Delhi MP, put it off for October 23.

During a brief arguments, the court was told that if it decided to club a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case allegedly involving senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar with another case then it will have to summon him to face trial. Riots victims' counsel senior advocate H S Phoolka told the court that if the court decides against such a move then police would be asked to file the chargesheet prepared against Kumar which was not filed since 1992. Phoolka told the court that the application filed by the Special Public Prosecutor with regard to direction to the police on the chargesheet had to be decided first before proceeding in on-going trial.

With thanks : Times of India : link in headline above for detailed news.

SikhsIndia

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