New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) challenging the anticipatory bail granted to senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, an accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases.
The top court observed that 34 years have passed since the incident and it is high time that these cases were tried and taken to the logical conclusion.
A bench of Justices AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan issued notice to Kumar and sought his response in two weeks.
"34-years of incident have passed. It's high time that these cases are tried at the earliest and taken to their logical conclusion," the bench said.
The top court also took exception to a Delhi High Court order running into 200 pages upholding the trial court's decision granting anticipatory bail to Kumar in the case and said it could have been done in just 40-50 pages.
During the hearing, the bench asked Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh, appearing for the SIT, about the stage of investigation in the case against Kumar. Singh replied the investigation was started against him only in 2016 and now he "comes to SIT armed with a battery of lawyers and dictates" his statement to the investigating officer.