Mumbai, August 13: In a major reprieve, the Supreme Court on Friday provided major relief to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in connection with the 1984 anti-sikh riot case.
The apex court stayed the trial in lower court against Sajjan Kumar and ordered CBI to submit its report within two weeks.
Earlier, the Delhi High Court had dismissed a petition, challenging the framing of charges against him by a trial court here in an anti-Sikh riot case of the Delhi Cantonment area.
Sajjan had sought quashing of the trial court order framing charges of criminal conspiracy, murder and other offences under the Indian Penal Code.
Several people were killed in the 1984 anti-sikh riot that broken out across the Capital in the wake of the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
In his plea he stated that the Delhi police had already closed the case against him, therefore, two parallel proceedings could not go against him in the same matter.
Other grounds on which he urged the court to quash the charges were delay in lodging of FIR and recording of statements of the witnesses.
However, Justice Vipin Sanghi of the Court dismissed his submissions saying that the Delhi Police had no locus to file a closure report in the case because the investigation the charges against the accused had been transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation before filing of the closure report.
—Agencies