Debangana Ray:
Published on July 6, 2022 at 19:25 IST
The Delhi High Court has stayed an order granting bail to former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a case of rioting and murder in connection to the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots.
Justice Yogesh Khanna was deliberating on a petition by the Special Investigation Team that challenged the order of the trial court granting bail to Mr Kumar in a case lodged in Saraswati Vihar Police station.
Th SIT submitted that Mr. Kumar was involved in heinous crimes and if he is released he may hamper the important evidences.
Mr. Kumar is already serving a life imprisonment sentence on another murder case relating to the Indira Gandhi Assassination case.
The case at Saraswati Vihar Police Station was registered on the basis of an affidavit filed by a woman on September, 1985 before Justice Ranganath Misra Commission.
“In her affidavit, the woman had narrated the November 1, 1984, incident of killing and burning of her husband and son and she had also clearly stated the name of accused Sajjan Kumar as a person who instigated the mob,” the plea said.
The plea said after investigation, the riots cell of Delhi Police had sent the case as untraced which was accepted by the magistrate on July 8, 1994.
However, the complainant was neither produced before the court by the investigating officer nor the court summoned her to clarify her position before passing the order, the plea added.
The SIT added that the woman’s statement was also recorded in another FIR lodged at the Punjabi Bagh police station, however, the judicial record of that FIR has been destroyed.