The court rejected the plea of the Delhi police to club the case involving Kumar with the ongoing trial in another case relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
A Delhi Court today paved the way for initiation of criminal proceedings against senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in another case relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
The court rejected the plea of the Delhi police to club the case involving Kumar with the ongoing trial in another case relating to the carnage.
"There is no order on judicial records with regard to clubbing to FIR no 67/87 (allegedly involving Kumar) with FIR no 418/1991," district judge SK Sarvaria said.
The court allowed an application filed by special public prosecutor stating that the charge sheet prepared against Kumar in 1992 cannot be clubbed with another case on which trial was already on.
A charge sheet in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case citing sufficient evidence to proceed against Kumar was prepared in 1992 but was never brought before a judge to seek his prosecution.
Delhi police had claimed that the two cases relating to the incidents during the riots that took place following assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi were clubbed on the legal opinion provided by the prosecution branch.
The prosecutor had said the police were not empowered to club cases and it was the sole prerogative of the court to decide such issues.
The charge sheet was prepared in the case based on FIR number 67/87 at Nangloi police station in New Delhi naming Kumar as an accused on April 8, 1992, but it was kept in the police file and never brought before the court, the prosecutor had claimed.
The police took the plea that the FIR was clubbed with another riots case in which the trial was already on and in which Kumar was not accused.
An FIR was registered in 1991 with regard to the killing of four persons in Nangloi here during the 1984 riots.
Kumar, along with five others, was mentioned as an accused in the case but the police dropped the name of the politician.
The case (FIR no 67/87) with regard to the killings of five persons allegedly involving Kumar was clubbed with the FIR (418/1991) with Nangloi police. In 1994, the police filed the charge sheet in FIR no 418/1991 against five accused but did not mention Kumar as an accused.
Now, Delhi police would have to file the charge sheet in a court. This would be the third charge sheet against Kumar, the former outer Delhi MP, as CBI had already filed two charge sheets against him relating to riots cases this year.
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