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Delhi High Court frees massacre accused, but damns police
WSN Network 

NEW DELHI: In a scathing damnation of the Indian justice system, the Delhi High Court this week  called police investigations into genocidal attacks on Sikhs in 1984 as “inefficient” and “inadequate”. In a case pertaining to 1984 anti-Sikh massacres, the High Court slammed the city police for implicating five innocent men and allowing the real culprits to flee.

“Serious crimes were committed in the wake of riots but inadequate and insufficient investigations have enabled the actual perpetrators to slip through the net of justice,” noted a Division Bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice V .B. Gupta in a judgment, and upheld the trial court’s order acquitting the five accused. “This is a classic example of the state roping in innocent persons to solve a riot case... the arrest of respondents (accused persons) was made in a premeditated and designed manner aimed only at working out the present case with scant regard for actual culpability or involvement of arrested persons,” the Bench said.

11 February 2009
 

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