{"id":27218,"date":"2013-03-15T13:46:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T08:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=27218"},"modified":"2013-03-15T13:46:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T08:16:23","slug":"1984-riots-cbi-says-eyewitness-are-trustworthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/1984-riots-cbi-says-eyewitness-are-trustworthy","title":{"rendered":"1984 riots: CBI says eyewitness are trustworthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Delhi CBI told in court here\u00a0that the complainant in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and five others are facing trial is an &#8220;eyewitness&#8221; to the killings and her statement is &#8220;trustworthy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Advancing final arguments before District Judge JR<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>Aryan, senior advocate RS Cheema, appearing for CBI, said complainant Jagdish Kaur had &#8220;seen the killings in front of her and she has neither changed her stand nor tried to exaggerate the facts in the court&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kaur had lost her husband, a young son and three brothers during the riots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She saw her husband and son being killed by the mob in front of her eyes and she also lost her three brothers during the riots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She is a person of extra ordinary courage and memory who is doing everything to get justice. She is a witness of truth and has not changed her stand,&#8221; the counsel submitted.<\/p>\n<p>He said she had not attempted to name in her affidavits those persons whom she had not seen during the riots.<\/p>\n<p>Sajjan Kumar is facing trial along with five others &#8211; Balwan Khokkar, Kishan Khokkar, Mahender Yadav, Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal &#8211; for allegedly inciting a mob against the Sikh community in Delhi Cantonment area.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Anil Sharma, counsel for the accused, had earlier contended that there were several contradictions in the statements of the witnesses. The counsel had questioned the &#8220;conduct&#8221; of Jagdish Kaur.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jagdish Kaur and another witness Nirpreet Kaur moved an application in the court seeking for permission to bring two news articles of 1984 about Sajjan Kumar of 1984.<\/p>\n<p>They have also sought the court&#8217;s permission to summon editors of the two English dailies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Delhi CBI told in court here\u00a0that the complainant in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and five others are facing trial is an &#8220;eyewitness&#8221; to the killings and her statement is &#8220;trustworthy&#8221;. 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