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25 years after
CBI
gets green signal to move against Sajjan
WSN Bureau
 NEW DELHI:
Jarnail Singh’s shoe flung across India’s Home Minister P
Chidambaram had created enough pressure of worldwide shame over
denial of justice to the Sikhs even 25 years after the genocidal
killings in Delhi and elsewhere.
As a face-saving
measure in Parliament, Chidambaram had said that Delhi’s Lieutenant
Governor was expected to take a decision on CBI’s request to move
against Sajjan Kumar With the advent of 2010, Lt Governor Tejinder
Khanna granted this sanction to the CBI to prosecute Kumar in the
four cases in which 11 Sikhs were murdered in 1984. Sajjan Kumar and
Jagdish Tytler were the two people whose name figured in so many
witness’ statements and news reports that not prosecuting them to
logical end became a matter of blatant shame.
The case was
registered against Kumar after the G T Nanavati Commission report of
February 2005, which recommended fresh examination of complaints in
which he had been named and no chargesheets were filed. The CBI
asked for prosecution sanction for four cases of “rioting” in
Sultanpuri and Mongolpuri on November 1, 1984. Indian government and
most of the mainstream media insists on using the term “riot” for
what was a blatant massacre and very much a genocide.
Significantly,
news of the sanction came minutes after Chidambaram said that he had
“issued certain directions on December 16, 2009 regarding decision
on the request for sanction of prosecution.”
The sanction was
needed since Kumar was charged with Section 153-A of the Indian
Penal Code that deals with “promoting enmity between different
groups on ground of religion, race, etc. and doing acts prejudicial
to maintenance of harmony”.
Other than these
four cases, the CBI has already filed closure reports in cases
against Dharam Das Shastri and Tytler. The latest move also seems to
be a desperate measure at face saving for the CBI which was
virtually caught red-handed trying to give clean chits to Sajjan and
Tytler even in the face of overwhelming evidence and witnesses. The
CBI at one stage had tried to negate the presence and then
credibility of certain witnesses but sections of the media and
Diaspora Sikhs raised a strong voice, forcing a new turn.
Jarnail Singh’s
shoe was the final straw making
New Delhi
buckle, though few believe that any tangible will come out of it.
6
January 2010
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