Tag: Sajjan Kumar

Life term for three, 2 escape with 3-year jailterm in ’84 riots case

May 10, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Three persons were today awarded life imprisonment in a 29-year-old 1984 anti-Sikh riots case by a Delhi court which said the offences were grave as the victims of a particular community had been targeted and the acts of the convicts were most gruesome in nature. District Judge J R Aryan gave life term to ex-councillor […]

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Sikh protests at 10 Janpath, Congress office

May 2, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

On the second day of protests, Sikh groups shouted slogans outside Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s residence and the Congress office Thursday, over the acquittal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. Burning effigies of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sajjan Kumar, different Sikh groups gathered outside Gandhi’s 10 Janpath residence. “Over […]

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Police silent during 1984 riots, serious lapse: court

May 2, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

A court in New Delhi told that the silence of Delhi Police during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots was a “serious lapse” on its part and it appeared to be “privy” in the incidents of rioting. District and Sessions Judge J R Aryan said that as per the report of Justice G T Nanavati Commission, 341 […]

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Anti-Sikh riots case: HC verdict on Sajjan’s plea tomorrow

April 29, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

On a plea of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar against a trial court order framing charges against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case related to the killings of six persons the Delhi High court will pronounce its verdict. Justice Suresh Kait, who had reserved the order in December last year, will pronounce the verdict at 10.30 […]

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Anti-Sikh riot: Sajjan Kumar gets relief

July 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Supreme Court today stayed the trial court proceedings against senior Congress leader Mr Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case. A Bench of Mr Justice P Sathasivam and Mr Justice BS Chauhan directed the lower court not to proceed with the case till 27 July when Delhi High Court is likely to take […]

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Supreme Court rejects Sajjan Kumar’s plea

September 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Supreme Court Monday rejected Congress leader Sajjan Kumar’s appeal seeking the quashing of the framing of charges against him in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The apex court bench of Justices P. Sathasivam and Anil R. Dave, however, said the trial court would remain uninfluenced by the adverse observation made by […]

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High court adjourns hearing on Sajjan Kumar’s plea

September 16, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Delhi High Court Thursday adjourned the hearing on a revision petition filed by Congress leader Sajjan Kumar challenging the framing of murder charge against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case filed in west Delhi’s Sultanpuri. However, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed its reply in the matter. The case has been listed […]

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No relief to Sajjan Kumar from high court

August 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Delhi High Court Friday declined to stay criminal proceedings for murder and other charges to be initiated against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar over the killing of six people during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Sajjan Kumar moved the high court, challenging the charges framed against him by the trial court July 1 in a case […]

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Apex court stays anti-Sikh riots case against Sajjan

August 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

In a setback to the trial of the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed trial proceedings against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, who faces murder and other charges for his alleged involvement in the riots in which 3,000 people were killed. A bench of justice P Sathasivam and Justice BS Chauhan issued […]

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Murder charges against Sajjan Kumar to stay

July 19, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Justice Vipin Sanghi dismissed the petition of Sajjan Kumar on the ground that the ‘circumstances and the nature of the offence is certainly not such as to justify the quashing of charges against the petitioner-accused in the interest of justice’. ‘The materials produced by the prosecution along with the chargesheet, namely, the statements of various […]