Sajjan case: Law will take own course, says Congress

After a Delhi court rejected the anticipatory bail plea of party leader Sajjan Kumar in the cases relating to 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Congress today said that law will take its own course in the matter.

"He (Sajjan Kumar) is a former MP and a member of the party. Law will take its own course," party spokesman Shakeel Ahmed told reporters here.

Ahmed said if any court has taken any decision, people should follow the directions.

"We expect him (Kumar) to do the same," he said. 

Kumar, a former MP from Outer Delhi, was given Congress ticket to contest from south Delhi parliamentary seat in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections.

The candidature was withdrawn after an uproar among the Sikh community and following the incident in which a shoe was thrown by a Sikh journalist at home minister P Chidambaram in protest against alleged inaction against the accused in the 1984 riots.

Along with Kumar, the ticket given to Jagdish Tytler, against whom cases are pending for alleged involvement in the riots, was also withdrawn by the party.

While Tytler was rehabilitated by the party by making him the AICC in-charge of Bihar, Kumar was overlooked after his brother Ramesh Kumar replaced him as the party candidate from south Delhi and won the seat.