New Delhi, May 25: Senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar today approached the Delhi High Court challenging a trial court’s order to frame charges against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case relating to murder and spreading enmity between two communities.
Justice Vipin Sanghi reserved the order on his petition in which he contended that the trial court has taken into account the evidence produced very late and also did not consider the contradictory statements given by the witness.
Appearing for Kumar, senior advocate Amarendra Saran argued that “for 20 years the witness did not appear. The same witness has given nine different versions.”
“The court should quash the trial court order on the ground of delay in recording of evidence in the case…,” said the counsel.
–Agencies