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Delhi, June 2 (Agency) A Delhi court hearing a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case
against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar Saturday dismissed his plea that the
CBI was not relying on some documents given by a complainant and key
prosecution witness.
District Judge J.R. Aryan did not accept
Sajjan Kumar's plea related to complainant Jagdish Kaur.
"It is clear that without going into the wider question even a plain reading
of Section 6 (Commissions of Inquiry Act) will prohibit the use of the
previous statements at the trial either for the purposes of cross
examination to contradict the witness or to impeach his credit," said the
judge.
The court was hearing the final arguments in a case against Sajjan Kumar and
five others accused of inciting mobs against the Sikh community during the
riots that broke out after the assassination of then prime minister Indira
Gandhi Oct 31, 1984.
The Congress leader said that prosecutor R.S. Cheema July 12, 2010 made a
statement in the court that affidavits of a witness in the case could not be
used as they were contradictory.
The CBI opposed Sajjan Kumar's plea and said it took objection in 2010 to
Jagdish Kaur's affidavits and statements, filed before the Ranganath Misra
Commission and the G.T. Nanavati Commission, set up to probe the riots, but
the accused had not said anything at that time.
The trial court, while framing charges against the accused, also relied on
these documents, Sajjan Kumar said.
