In an unusual decision, a Delhi court hearing a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case involving senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar today said a two-minute silence will be observed before commencement of everyday’s proceedings in memory of the innocent people killed in the carnage.
The court also said “hundreds of murders” had taken place during the riots which were “never investigated or tried”. “Hundreds of murders that took place during the riots were never investigated or tried.
Before the hearing resumes in the case, maintain silence for two minutes as so many people were killed during the riots. “The description of the incidents given by the witnesses itself show how painful it was for them (victims) as so many innocents were killed,” District Judge J R Aryan said.
The judge, who is hearing the final arguments in the riot case in which Kumar has been accused of instigating a mob in Delhi Cantonment area here, said everyone present in the court room during the proceedings will observe two minutes’ silence for the “innocent” people who were killed during the riots. The CBI was advancing the final arguments in the case in which six Sikhs were allegedly killed in Delhi Cantonment area during the riots that had broken out after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984. The arguments remained inconclusive and would continue tomorrow. CBI prosecutor and senior advocate R S Cheema blamed the Delhi Police for fabricating and destroying the case records.
—PTI