NEW DELHI: A witness in the 1984 anti - sikh riots today alleged before a court, trying senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and others, that the Delhi police virtually helped the rioters during the carnage.
"I was watching from the window that police vans came and on seeing them Sikhs rushed out of hoping they would help. Thereafter, the police vans went away and then after sometime, mobs came and burnt those very houses from where Sikhs came out," Joginder Singh told Additional Sessions Judge Sunita Gupta.
Deposing as seventh witness, Singh identified Kumar's co-accused ex-MLA Mahender Yadav, ex-councillor and Kumar's nephews Balwan Khokar and Kishan Khokar and Captain Bhagmal as those involved in the riots that had followed the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984.
The 53-year-old witness, whose father-in-law was also killed in the riots, said the mob was led by Khokar brothers and Yadav.
With thanks : Times of India : link in headline above for detailed news.
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