CBI TO PROSECUTE SAJJAN KUMAR FOR 1984 RIOTS

Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi Tejendra Khanna has set the ball rolling to begin judicial proceedings against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar. Khanna is understood to have accorded sanction for prosecuting Kumar for spreading enmity between two communities. The CBI had asked for prosecution sanction for four cases of rioting in Sultanpuri and Mongolpuri on November 1, 1984. The CBI had registered the case against Kumar after the G.T. Nanavati Commission report of February 2005, which called for fresh examination of complaints where he had been named but no charge-sheet was filed. Congress spokesman Shakeel Ahmed said, “Law will take its own course, Congress does not interfere in legal matters.” But the All India Sikh Conference Spokesperson Gurcharan Singh Babbar says, “The government is giving false assurance to the Sikh community by naming only Sajjan Kumar in the case. What about the 72 police officers who were earlier found guilty by a committee formed by Delhi police?”