A man, whose three brothers were killed in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, today denied before a court, trying senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, that he has been tutored to depose against the politician in the case.
A man, whose three brothers were killed in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, today denied before a court, trying senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, that he has been tutored to depose against the politician in the case.
"It is incorrect to suggest that I am making a false statement in this court. It is also incorrect to suggest that I have been tutored to make statement against Kumar with a view to implicating him," witness Jagsher Singh told additional sessions judge Sunita Gupta.
During his cross-examination, he also said that he had stated before the CBI that he could identify Kumar as the politician had visited his locality as an MP to listen to grievances of the residents and his brother had briefed him about the sewage problem of the area.
Singh, who was cross-examined for the third day, also claimed that he used to reside with his brothers at that time in Raj Nagar in New Delhi.
In his testimony on October 19, Singh had identified in the court Kumar as one who had allegedly provoked the mob to kill his brothers during the carnage after the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984.
43-year-old Singh is a cousin of complainant Jagdish Kaur whose husband Kehar Singh and a son were also killed during the riots.
Kaur had on July 3 identified Kumar and his nephew Khokkar and other accused Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal as accomplices who had allegedly instigated mobs during the 1984 carnage.
The CBI had filed two charge sheets against Kumar and others on January 13 in the riots cases registered in 2005 on the recommendation of the GT Nanavati Commission.
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