Defending its stand, the CBI on Thursday pleaded before the Delhi high court that it has sufficient evidence to prove the alleged involvement of senior Congress leader and former MP Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
The CBI filed an affidavit before the court stating that “During investigation by CBI, sufficient material establishing his involvement has come on record. He had instigated the mob, armed with deadly weapons, by making highly provocative speeches.”
The CBI has in its earlier affidavit also stated that there was sufficient evidence to register a criminal case against the senior leader for his alleged involvement in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
Kumar has moved the Delhi HC seeking quashing of the criminal proceedings initiated against him by a lower court.
The police registered two criminal cases against the former outer Delhi MP for his alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the aftermath of the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984.
The apex court had earlier stayed the proceedings against him in one case in which five persons were killed in Delhi Cantonment.
The trial court had on July 7 framed charges of murder, rioting and spreading enmity between two communities against Kumar and others relating to the killing of six persons in Sultanpuri.
The CBI, while justifying the decision of the trial court, pleaded before the Delhi HC that Kumar’s plea for quashing proceedings should be dismissed.
The CBI had filed two chargesheets against Kumar and others in the riots cases registered in 2005 following recommendation of Justice G.T. Nanavati Commission which had inquired into the sequence of events leading to the riots.