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July 12, 2003, Chandigarh, India
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CBI challenges Sajjan Kumar’s
acquittal New Delhi, July 11 Accepting the appeal for hearing, a Bench comprising Ms Justice Usha Mehra and Mr Justice Pradeep Nandrajog condoned the nine-day delay in filing the appeal by the CBI. The court summoned the records of the case from the court of the Sessions Judge, who had acquitted Sajjan Kumar and nine others in the case on December 23 last year holding that there was not enough evidence against the accused. Sajjan Kumar was charged by the CBI of “instigating” and leading a mob against Sikhs in the Sultanpuri area of West Delhi “to kill male members of Sikhs and to loot their properties” on November 1, 1984, in the aftermath of the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh security guards. Sajjan Kumar and nine other persons were charged with murder, rioting, spreading communal disharmony, instigating people for rioting and looting. The case was registered against Kumar and other accused persons on the complaint of Anwar Kaur, a resident of Sultanpuri, alleging that her husband Navin Singh was killed by the mob “instigated” by Kumar. But during the cross-examination in the court, she had contradicted her statement, which led to the acquittal of the accused persons. Additional Solicitor General K.K. Sud pleading for admission of the appeal said the trial court had failed to appreciate the evidence properly and had “erred” coming to the conclusion that the benefit of doubt went in the favour of the accused persons. |
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