New Delhi: The final arguments in one of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases will take place on Wednesday. Congress leader Sajjan Kumar is the key accused in the case. In the earlier hearing, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had slammed the Delhi Police alleging that it carried out a tardy investigation in the case.
"Whatever action was taken by the Delhi Police was taken against the people who helped the Sikhs. Police did not take action against the main culprits. No policeman was recording complaint during the riots. They were not helping the victims. They were trying to shield the accused," senior advocate RS Cheema, who appeared for the CBI, had told District Judge JR Aryan.
Sajjan Kumar is facing trial in the case along with five others - Balwan Khokkar, Kishan Khokkar, Mahender Yadav, Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal - for allegedly inciting a mob against the Sikh community in Delhi Cantonment area. The case relates to anti-Sikh riots that had broken out after the assassination of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984.
"Even the police officials, who were defence witnesses in the case, had said in their statements that they had not seen anything during the riots," Cheema had argued. He said that this showed the police was only interested in "discrediting" the statement of eyewitness and complainant Jagdish Kaur and to give "clean chit" to Sajjan Kumar.
"They (police) were not ready to investigate the incident as per law," Cheema had said. He referred to the statement of defence witness Chajju Ram, a police constable, in which he had deposed that he was on duty during those tumultuous days and did not come across any report of any killing or rioting in the Raj Nagar area.
(With additional information from PTI)
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