The trial court had in July 2010 framed various charges including murder and rioting against Congress party leader Mr. Sajjan Kumar, Mr. Brahmanand Gupta, Peru, Khushal Singh and Mr. Ved Prakash Pial in connection with killing of a man in Sultanpuri area in the riots that had occurred after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984. Another accused Khushal Singh died during pendency of the case.
Earlier , the high court had affirmed the trial court’s order, saying charges could be framed if there is a strong suspicion leading the court to think there is ground for presuming that the accused has committed the offence, thus dismissing the pleas of Sajjan Kumar, Mr. Pial and Mr. Gupta challenging the framing of charges against them.
The bench headed by Justice A.K. Patnaik refused to grant relief to the former Congress MP Mr. Sajjan Kumar,who approached the apex court challenging the trial court and the Delhi High Court orders turning down his plea for quashing of charges against him and also dismissed similar pleas of other accused, Ved Prakash Pial and Brahmanand Gupta in the case.This was a setback to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar,as the Supreme Court dismissed his plea for quashing of charges against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
CBI had filed two charge sheets against Mr. Kumar and others in January 2010 in the riots cases registered in 2005 on the recommendation of Justice G.T. Nanavati Commission which had probed the sequence of events leading to the violence.CBI had earlier said in the trial court though the charge sheet pertains to killing of six persons, it was only restricting the charge relating to murder of Surjit Singh and not of other deceased persons in respect of whom the trial had already taken place.
INDIA HONEST wonders, how the genocide of thousands of innocent Sikhs, by the Congress leaders and workers,that took three decades to reach from "trial court" to High Court" ( from 1984 to 2013), it may take another two decades to reach its final verdict, while the killing of known terrorist of Ishrat Jehan and her Pakistani corroborator in a Gujarat police's (Congress alleged it to be fake) encounter,where the whole machinery of CBI and IB has exhausted their full steam just to corner the BJP leader Amit Shah anyhow. Is this the justice for Indian Sikhs to see their accused killers die without getting punished ?
Cruelly yes ! It is possible in Congress' India !