1984 riots case: court to fix date for trial against Sajjan

A Delhi court is likely to decide tomorrow the date for commencement of trial in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which veteran Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and four others are accused of killing six persons.
District Judge J R Aryan would fix the date for recording of statement of prosecution witnesses in the backdrop of death of prime witness Bhagwani Bai yesterday in the case.
The Delhi High Court had recently refused to quash murder and rioting charges framed against Kumar and two others relating to the killing of six persons in Sultanpuri area here.
Due to the pending plea of Kumar and others for quashing of charges, the proceedings in the case were stayed by the high court in 2010.

The high court had also dismissed the plea of complainant Sheela Kaur, a riot victim who had filed a cross-appeal seeking to invoke an additional charge of criminal conspiracy against Kumar and four others in the case.
In July 2010, the trial court had framed charges against Kumar, Brahmanand Gupta, Peru, Khushal Singh and Ved Prakash in connection with the case of killing of six persons in the riots that had occurred after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984.