|
Court convicts three in
anti-Sikh genocide case
WSN Network
NEW DELHI: A
Delhi court on Saturday convicted three persons for attempting to
murder members of a Sikh family during the 1984 Sikh genocide. It
indicted the Delhi Police and the state machinery for their role at
that time.
Additional
Sessions Judge Surinder S. Rathi held Mangal Sen alias Billa, Brij
Mohan Verma and Bhagat Singh guilty of attempt to murder, rioting,
dacoity in Shastri Nagar in north Delhi.
While deciding
the case, the judge made a strong indictment of the manner in which
the Delhi police and the state machinery had acted during the
killings.
“Even though we
boast of being the world’s largest democracy and Delhi being its
national capital, the very mention of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and
the role played by the Delhi police and the state machinery makes
our heads hang in shame in the eyes of the world polity,” it said.
The Delhi police
had probed the incident in which one Joginder Singh and his two
sons, Jagmohan Singh and Gurvinder Singh, were seriously injured,
while their house was burned down by a mob led by the convicts on
November 1, 1984. The court is likely to pronounce a sentence
against the three convicts on August 29.
| |
Another
dismisses CBI's plea in Jagdish Tytler's case
 NEW
DELHI: A Delhi Court on Tuesday dismissed the plea of CBI that a
Metropolitan Magistrate cannot decide on the agency's closure
report giving clean chit to former union minister Jagdish Tytler
in a 1984 Sikh genocide case.
"This court
can take cognisance of the offence exclusively triable by the
court of Sessions and then can summon the accused who are
mentioned in the charge sheet as well as those who are not
mentioned therein, if it appears to the court that they have
also done the offence," Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
Rakesh Pandit said.
The court
will take cognizance on the closure report on September 23.
The CBI had
on April 2 sought to close the case against Tytler, claiming
there was no sufficient evidence against him, but it had
challenged the jurisdiction of the court to take cognizance of
the report.
Tytler was
given a clean chit by CBI earlier also on September 28, 2007
after the agency said it failed to trace Jasbir Singh, a key
witness in the case. However, in December, 2007, the court had
refused to accept CBI's closure report and directed the agency
to further investigate the case, compelling it to send its
officials to the United States to record Singh's statement. |
|
26
August 2009
|
Read Also
Your WSN