CBI receives blink to prosecute Sajjan Kumar

New Delhi, January 01: It could be difficult for the Congress leader Sajjan Kumar as Delhi Lt-Governor Tejendra Khanna has nodded to CBI to go-ahead in the cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

“Lt-governor Tejendra Khanna has given the nod to the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) to prosecute Sajjan Kumar,” a Raj Bhavan source told news agency.

Former parliamentarian Sajjan Kumar is accused of instigating mobs that went on rampage killing Sikhs across Delhi in 1984 in the wake of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination.
–Agencies