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1984 riots: CBI blames Sajjan Kumar for inciting mob
Monday April 23, 2012 08:11:45 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday told a Delhi court
hearing a case against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar related to the
1984 anti-Sikh riots that he was the main conspirator of inciting
a mob.
Special Public Prosecutor R.S. Cheema said in the court of
District Judge-cum-Additional Sessions Judge J.R. Aryan that the
conspiracy to riot was well organised and backed by Sajjan Kumar
and the police.
"There was a conspiracy of terrifying proportion with complicity
of police and patronage of local MP Sajjan Kumar," said Cheema.
The CBI told the court that Sajjan Kumar in a speech given at Raj
Nagar in November 1984 said that "not a single Sikh should
survive".
The court would next hear the final arguments May 15.
The probe agency said that circumstances clearly signified that
the conspiracy was hatched by the Congress leader.
The CBI said that police did not register a case in the riots
case. The probe agency said earlier that police kept their eyes
closed during the carnage.
The court was hearing the final arguments in a case against Sajjan
Kumar and the other five accused of inciting mob against the Sikh
community during the riots that broke out after the assassination
of then prime minister Indira Gandhi Oct 31, 1984.
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