By IANS,
New Delhi: A city court Thursday dismissed an application by Congress leader Sajjan Kumar seeking documents from Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) about the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Additional Sessions Judge Sunita Gupta said: “All the documents relating to this case have been supplied by the CBI. The other documents are not needed.”
During arguments, the CBI counsel offered to give copies of the earlier judgment but refused to give other documents like a copy of action taken report of Justice G.T. Nanavati Commission, set up in 1984 to investigate the riots and record witnesses’ evidence, among others.
The next hearing is on April 27.
Sajjan Kumar, Khushal Singh, Girdhari Lal, Balwan Khokhar, Mahender Yadav, Maha Singh, Capt Bhagmal, Santosh Rani and Krishna Khokhar were named as accused in the murder of five people in Delhi Cantonment in the riots following then prime minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination Oct 31, 1984.
The CBI had filed a chargesheet against Sajjan Kumar and others in two cases for allegedly instigating mobs after the assassination. More than 3,000 Sikhs were killed across Delhi in the anti-Sikh riots.