Woman witness claims her house was attacked by Congress leaders

A woman, whose five family members including the husband and a son, were killed in 1984 anti-Sikh riots, today claimed before a Delhi court in a trial against former MP Sajjan Kumar and others that her house was attacked by Congress men."When my house was attacked by the mob, I saw that the mobwas being led by local Congress leaders. Those Congress leaders were having a list of names and houses of Sikhs in thearea," Jagdish Kaur told Additional Sessions Judge SunitaGupta.The 69-year-old witness reiterated the contents of an affidavit during her cross examination for the sixth day by advocate AK Sharma appearing for accused Girdhari Lal, captain Bhagmal and Mahender Yadav.The woman, however, changed her versions with regard towhereabouts of her children, which was at variance with herstatement submitted through an affidavit before justiceRangnath Mishra Commission.

The cross examination of the witness remained inconclusiveand would resume on July 19.The court is conducting the trial against Kumar and others on a day-to-day basis.Kaur, who now resides in Amritsar, had on July 3 identified Kumar and his nephew Khokkar, and Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal as accomplices who had allegedly instigated mobs during the 1984 carnage.Kaur's family members, including her husband and son, werekilled in the riots that had followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984.CBI had filed two charge sheets against Kumar and others onJanuary 13 in the riots cases registered in 2005 on the recommendation of justice GT Nanavati Commission whichinquired into the sequence of events leading to the riots.