CBI FINALISES CHARGESHEET AGAINST SAJJAN KUMAR

CBI FINALISES CHARGESHEET AGAINST SAJJAN KUMAR

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July 21, 2022

The CBI has finalised its chargesheet against senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar for 1984 anti-Sikh riots case and is likely to submit it to the designated court soon. The chargesheet was finalised after receiving a nod from Delhi Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna recently to prosecute the Congress leader, an accused in the riots that shook the country 25 years ago after the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her bodyguards.  “We have finalised the chargesheet and it will be filed soon,” a senior CBI official said. The sanction was required in the case of Sajjan Kumar as he was also charged under Section 153-A of the IPC (spreading enmity between two communities).

The CBI has completed investigations or re-investigation of seven cases, including that of Sajjan Kumar and another Congress leader, late Dharam Das Shastri. The case against Kumar was registered after the GT Nanavati Commission’s report of February 2005, which had recommended fresh examination of complaints in which the Congress leader had been named and no chargesheet had been filed.