A plea seeking the prosecution of four Delhi Police officers for allegedly destroying the records and files of a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, has been dismissed by a court here saying those documents were not relevant and their reservation was not required.
Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau rejected the plea of Special Public Prosecutor(SPP) B S Joon who had sought framing of charges of destruction of evidence and criminal conspiracy against the then SHO Police Station Nangloi Inspector Rampal Singh, SI Dalel Singh, the then ACP Amarender Kumar Singh and the then SHO R S Dahiya.
In view of my discussion, I hereby conclude that the SPP has failed to bring before this court any material, even prima facie, which would show the complicity of the then ACP Amarender Kumar Singh and the then Inspector R S Dahiya in the
criminal conspiracy alleged to have been hatched by the accused Dalel Singh and Ram Pal Singh for destruction of record of the present case.
“Rather, there is a total failure to even highlight and establish if there existed any material which was relevant evidence and was required to be preserved and therefore in the absence of the same, the question of destruction does not
arise,” the judge said.
The court also said the application was filed by the prosecutor after 22 years when the case is at the stage of final arguments and is dismissed as it is “bereft of all details having nexus to the case”.
The court was hearing the riot case which was registered in 1991 with regard to the killing of four persons and the records and files were alleged to have been destroyed in 1992.
Joon in his application had alleged these four officials were responsible for destroying the relevant records relating to 1984 anti-Sikh riots of Nangloi Police Station which they did deliberately to save the accused in the present case
despite lodging of the present FIR on August 28, 1991.
In the riot case registered at Nangloi police station, accused Satpal Gupta, Dalel Singh, Ram Pal Singh and Karan Singh are facing trial while two others Prem Chand and Ram Niwas died during the pendency of the case.
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