A city court will announce its judgement in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case on April 30. Congress leader Sajjan Kumar is one of the accused in the case. Kumar is facing trial along with five others – Balwan Khokkar, Kishan Khokkar, Mahender Yadav, Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal – for allegedly conspiring and inciting a mob against the Sikh community in Delhi Cantonment area. District Judge J R Aryan said he required no clarification from the counsel for CBI and the accused.
'Come on 30 April for judgement,' said the judge. The court had earlier fixed the matter for Wednesday for any clarification that it might require in the case.
The trial court had framed charges against Kumar and the five others under Sections 302 (murder), 395 (dacoity), 427 (mischief to cause damage to property), 153-A (promoting enmity between different communities), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and other provisions of the IPC. The minimum punishment under Section 302 IPC is life imprisonment and the maximum in death penalty. Complainant Jagdish Kaur had lost her husband, a young son and three brothers during the 1984 riots.
While concluding its final arguments, CBI had said that it has limited itself to what each of the witnesses had seen at the time of the incident. CBI had said that the witnesses had given honest versions of what they all had seen during the riots and alleged that in all the complaints wherever Kumar's name had cropped up, it was immediately eliminated from the police records.
Defense counsel had told the court that there were material contradictions in statements of the witnesses, including complainant Jagdish Kaur.
He had said that Kaur had not taken Kumar's name anywhere in any of her affidavits filed before various judicial commissions, constituted to probe the riots-related cases, till 2010.
'Come on 30 April for judgement,' said the judge. The court had earlier fixed the matter for Wednesday for any clarification that it might require in the case.
The trial court had framed charges against Kumar and the five others under Sections 302 (murder), 395 (dacoity), 427 (mischief to cause damage to property), 153-A (promoting enmity between different communities), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and other provisions of the IPC. The minimum punishment under Section 302 IPC is life imprisonment and the maximum in death penalty. Complainant Jagdish Kaur had lost her husband, a young son and three brothers during the 1984 riots.
While concluding its final arguments, CBI had said that it has limited itself to what each of the witnesses had seen at the time of the incident. CBI had said that the witnesses had given honest versions of what they all had seen during the riots and alleged that in all the complaints wherever Kumar's name had cropped up, it was immediately eliminated from the police records.
Defense counsel had told the court that there were material contradictions in statements of the witnesses, including complainant Jagdish Kaur.
He had said that Kaur had not taken Kumar's name anywhere in any of her affidavits filed before various judicial commissions, constituted to probe the riots-related cases, till 2010.