New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation has got official sanction to prosecute Congress leader Sajjan Kumar for his alleged role in 1984 anti-Sikh riots in New Delhi.
Delhi Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna on Thursday granted sanction to CBI to prosecute Kumar and launch court proceedings against him for riots that broke out in the nation capital after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984.
The sanction was required as Kumar is a former MP and has been charged with Section 153-A of IPC (spreading enmity between two communities).
According to Delhi Police’s FIR against Kumar in 1984, he and ten accomplices instigated riots in Sultanpuri area of Delhi that killed 49 people.
Kumar was an MP from the Outer Delhi constituency in the 14th Lok Sabha, but opted out as a Congress candidate in Northwest Delhi constituency in the April 2009 Lok Sabha elections.
Senior Advocate HS Phoolka has said that the state now has no option but to file a chargesheet against Sajjan Kumar.
"Now that the permission has been granted, the state has no option but to file the chargesheet against Sajjan," he stated.
Jasbir Singh, a witness in the case, spoke to CNN-IBN from California a short while earlier. He said the CBI has betrayed the Sikhs for 25 years.
"The CBI is working under Government pressure. If Delhi burned for three straight days, don't they know who ordered the killings? Our statements were ignored. The nation has lit candles for the Chandigarh girl Ruchika who was molested by one policeman but what about the policemen who harassed us? CBI knows everything. Gurudwaras were attacked, the Guru Granth Sahib was burnt, the CBI has been fooling us for 25 years," he said.
Meanwhile, Home Minister P Chidambaram said, "In the 1984 riots cases I have asked for pending claims of compensation as well as decisions on sanctions of prosecution applications for jobs."
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