New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Congress leader and former MP Sajjan Kumar's plea to quash charges against him in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that took place in Delhi's Sultanpuri area.
Earlier in July, the Delhi High Court ruled that Sajjan Kumar will continue to face trial in the riots that took place in Sultanpuri area of Delhi following the assassination of the them prime minister Indira Gandhi
Kumar had moved the High Court challenging a trial court order to frame charges against him in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in which six people were killed in Sultanpuri.
In July 2010, a lower court had framed charges against Kumar, Brahmanand Gupta, Peru, Khushal Singh and Ved Prakash in connection with the case in which six persons were killed in Sultanpuri in anti-Sikhs riots that had erupted in Delhi and elsewhere after the assassination of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984.
Besides charges of murder and rioting, the court had also framed charges for the offence of spreading enmity between two communities against the accused in the case. CBI had filed two charge sheets against Kumar and others in January, 2010 in the riots cases registered in 2005 on the recommendation of Justice GT Nanavati Commission which probed the sequence of events leading to the riots.
A lower court had recently acquitted Kumar in another 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. However, five other co-accused were held guilty for being a part of the mob that killed five Sikhs at Delhi Cantonment in Delhi.
(With additional information from PTI)
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