1984 anti-Sikh riots case: SC dismisses interim bail plea of Sajjan Kumar
Delhi High Court had announced Life Imprisonment to Sajjan Kumar in 2018, charging him guilty of murder and also promoting enmity between groups, and defiling public property.
The Supreme Court has now dismissed the interim bail plea of the former Congress leader, Kumar who is serving life imprisonment in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
Rejecting his plea, a bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said, “Sorry. We are not inclined. Dismissed,”
The court said that his appeal against the conviction in the case may be taken up for hearing after the court starts its physical hearing.
Kumar’s senior advocate, Vikas Singh argued that interim bail be granted to Kumar on health grounds as he has been in jail for 20 months and has lost nearly 16 kg weight and needs to recover from past ailments.
On the other hand, Senior advocate, H S Phoolka, who has been appearing for some of the riot victims, opposed the plea and said whatever treatment is needed Kumar is already being given the same at the hospital.
Kumar was sent to jail in 2018 by Delhi High Court after he surrendered before a trial court on December 31.
The CBI accused him and four others of killing six Sikh men during the ensuing riots. However, Kumar was acquitted by a trial court in 2013 when it refused to convict him solely on the basis of the eyewitness testimony of the complainant, Jagdish Kaur, who had lost her husband, son and three brothers in the riots.
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Kumar resigned from Congress after his conviction.
Anti-Sikh riots had broken out after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984, by her two Sikh bodyguards.
-PTC News
