New Delhi, India (April 29, 2013): The
Delhi high court is scheduled to pronounce it’s verdict on April 29,
2013 regarding a plea of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar against a trial
court order framing charges against him in a case related to November
1984 Sikh massacre case related to the brutal killings of six Sikh in
Sultanpuri area of Delhi.
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| Sajjan Kumar – Indian politician who is facing murder charges in an incident related to Sikh Genocide 1984 |
It is notable that Justice Suresh Kait
of Delhi High Court who had reserved the order in December last year in
this matter. Now he is scheduled to pronounce the verdict at 10.30 am on
April 29, 2013. Besides the Congress leader, co-accused Ved Prakash
Pial alias Vedu Pradhan and Brahmanand Gupta had also moved the high
court against framing of charges against them in the case.
Complainant Sheela Kaur had filed a
cross-appeal in the high court seeking to invoke the charges of criminal
conspiracy against Kumar and other four accused in the case.
Earlier in July 2010, a lower court had
framed charges against Kumar, Brahmanand Gupta, Peru, Khushal Singh and
Ved Prakash in connection with the case in which six persons were killed
in Sultanpuri Massacre.
The case is one of the two that had been
registered by the CBI following recommendations by the Justice Nanavati
Commission in 2005. The CBI had filed its charge-sheets in both cases
in 2010, but the trial for this case had been deferred as the court was
hearing the second case related to the death of five persons in Delhi
Cantonment area.
It is notable that thousands of Sikhs
were burnt alive in state-sponsored massacres in November 1984. These
massacres that we part of a co-ordinated and systematic genocide of
Sikhs, were carried out throughout India in first week of November. Most
of the culprits of these massacres have enjoyed impunity and state
patronage for last 29 years.
