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- By Parinda News Bureau, January 30, 2006, 13:46 IST
New Delhi: Setting in motion a fresh probe into the alleged role of Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 riots, court on Saturday handed over to CBI all documents regarding a case of rioting and looting.
Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Garg transferred to the agency's possession original documents of the cases, case diaries, statements of witnesses filed by Delhi Police, a copy of closure report filed in 2004 before a Magistrate. This is one among the dozen riot cases earlier terminated as "untraced" and on which the CBI would now conduct a probe following a Central directive based on the Nanavati Commission report. The Commission had highlighted the need to re-open these cases to enquire into whether the Delhi strongman had any role into instigating the mob into a killing frenzy. Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Garg had on Friday released the documents on another case of murder and dacoity against the leader.
Both the cases against Kumar lodged at the Sultanpuri police station were re-registered by the probe agency later last year.
In one of the two FIRs in question, Joginder Singh, a resident of Sultanpuri in West Delhi alleged that Sajjan Kumar, the Outer Delhi MP, had on November 1,1984 "brought a mob of ruffians and told them they had 72 hours' freedom to kill Sikhs and no Sikh should escape". In the second FIR filed by one Anek Kaur of the same area said she saw Sajjan Kumar, accompanied by another Congress leader Jai Kishan, threaten people gheraoed by a rampaging mob that "all Sikhs would be killed".
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