{"id":27554,"date":"2013-04-04T12:55:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T07:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=27554"},"modified":"2013-04-04T12:55:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T07:25:56","slug":"1984-anti-sikh-riots-case-court-reserves-judgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/1984-anti-sikh-riots-case-court-reserves-judgement","title":{"rendered":"1984 anti-Sikh riots case: Court reserves judgement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">New Delhi: A court here\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">reserved its judgement in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and five others are accused.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>District jugde JR Aryan fixed the matter for April 16 for clarification, if any, from CBI or the six accused persons after they concluded the final arguments in the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Judgement is reserved. To come up for clarification, if any, on April 16,&#8221; according to the judge.<\/p>\n<p>Concluding the final arguments, CBI prosecutor DP Singh said that the prosecution has limited itself to what each of the witnesses had seen at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The witnesses have given honest versions of what they all had seen during the riots, he said, alleging that in all the complaints wherever Kumar&#8217;s name had cropped up, it was &#8220;immediately eliminated&#8221; from the police records.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>During the arguments, Kumar&#8217;s counsel IU Khan told the court that there were material contradictions in statements of the witnesses, including complainant Jagdish Kaur.<\/p>\n<p>Khan said Kaur had not taken Kumar&#8217;s name anywhere in any of her affidavits filed before various judicial commissions, constituted to probe the riots-related cases, till 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When she (Kaur) appeared in the court in 2010 to record her statement, she gave us a shock by naming Sajjan Kumar for the first time and said something which was not there in the records,&#8221; he argued.<\/p>\n<p>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<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A court here\u00a0reserved its judgement in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and five others are accused. 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