The Delhi High Court dismissed senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar’s petition challenging a trial court’s order for the charges to be framed against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

The former MP was facing prosecution for inciting a mob against the Sikh community in the aftermath of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination on October 31, 1984. The prosecution alleges that it led to killings of six people.

Hearing the case, Justice Vipin Sanghi cast aspersions on Delhi Police for cancelling the FIR against the politician when the matter was still being probed by the CBI.

A trial court had termed the case as ‘untraced’ in July 2008 after the Delhi Police filed a cancellation report stating that the complainant was not traceable.

Rejecting Kumar’s plea, Justice Sanghi directed the trial court to hold the proceedings against him expeditiously in the anti-Sikh riots cases.

The trial court had framed charges under Sections 302 (murder), and 153A (promoting enmity between different communities) under the IPC.

UNI