
New Delhi: Congress leader Sajjan Kumar's plea will come up for hearing in a Delhi court on Saturday in the 1984 Delhi Sikh riots case. Kumar has claimed contradictions in the affidavits and statement of key witness and complainant Jagdish Kaur. They were conducted by the GT Nanavati and Ranganath Mishra Commissions. Sajjan Kumar, Balwan Khokkar, Kishan Khokkar, Mahender Yadav, Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal are facing trial in the...

10:04 AM, Jun 02, 2012

New Delhi: A US court will begin hearing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against the Congress on Tuesday. A Sikh rights group had sought a default judgment against the party for its failure to defend charges of conspiracy and organising the riots. The Congress party had opposed the charges. Lawyers from international law firm 'Jones Day', which is representing the Congress in a court in New York, opposed the entry...

10:07 AM, May 01, 2012

A person often looks helpless and vulnerable in front of his wife or on the hospital bed and maybe even in the court room. How ...

07:58 PM, Apr 23, 2012

New Delhi: The killing of people in the Delhi Cantonment area during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots was the result of a well executed conspiracy, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said on Monday as the agency finished its arguments in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the Delhi Cantonment area case. The CBI said that people belonging only to a certain community were targeted with the pattern and scale of operation...

05:03 PM, Apr 23, 2012

New York: A US court will hear on May 1 the arguments in the anti-Sikh riots case against India's ruling Congress party, which has opposed a default judgement being sought by a Sikh rights group against it for its failure to defend charges for conspiring and organising the 1984 riots. Lawyers from international law firm 'Jones Day', which is representing the Congress in a court in New York, has opposed...

08:00 PM, Apr 12, 2012

New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday told a Delhi court that the Delhi Police, acting in a pre-planned manner during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, kept its "eyes closed" to the violence. Advancing final arguments in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, in which veteran Congress leader Sajjan Kumar has been accused of instigating a mob in Delhi Cantonment area here, CBI counsel RS Cheema said the city police "deliberately" did not...

11:04 PM, Mar 31, 2012

New Delhi: The CBI is expected to file its reply on Monday to the accusations made by the widow of a 1984 anti-Sikh riots victim. She had accused that the investigating agency was quick to bail out Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, who faces charges for inciting the mob against the Sikhs. In the last hearing, the widow of a victim told the Court that the CBI hastily bailed out Tytler...

08:09 AM, Mar 19, 2012

New Delhi: Revisiting the Gujarat riots on its 10th anniversary, BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said many people were "misled" into a "retaliatory action" after the Godhra train attack but he did not share the view that Chief Minister Narendra Modi failed to act. Jaitley also alleged that the media has ignored the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in which convictions were "negligble" but continued to highlight the 2002 post-Godhra riots...

02:33 PM, Feb 29, 2012

New York: A US court is set to hear March 15 a plea for "default judgment" against India's Congress party for failing to defend charges of conspiring, aiding, abetting, organizing anti-Sikh riots in November 1984. The case will be heard by Judge Robert W Sweet of the US Federal Court in New York, according to Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a US based community organisation, which filed a motion before the...

10:36 AM, Feb 19, 2012

New Delhi: Following widespread protests by the Sikh community, the Lieutenant Governor has reversed the decision to grant premature release to Kishori Lal, who is one of the main convicts in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. The alleys of Trilokpuri in East Delhi, where Lal is accused of killing innocent people, look like any other working class neighbourhood, but the horror of its past is etched in the memories of...

08:49 AM, Feb 18, 2012

New Delhi: Delhi Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna has reversed a decision of commuting life sentence of a convict in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case and asked Delhi's Sentence Review Board to give it a relook following protests by a section of Sikh community. The decision to send the case again to State Review Board was taken following opposition by a section of Sikh community to the decision to commute life sentence...

07:06 AM, Feb 16, 2012

New Delhi: A joint delegation of BJP and Shiromani Akali Dal leaders on Thursday called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought punishment of the Congress men accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu and Delhi BJP President Vijender Gupta led the delegation of MPs and office-bearers of the two parties to the Prime Minister on the 27th anniversary of the anti-Sikh riots and submitted a...

01:38 AM, Nov 04, 2011

It was on November 1, 27 years ago, when the streets of Delhi ran with blood during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. ...

11:00 PM, Nov 01, 2011

The families of the 1984 riots say that they still have not received justice even after 27 years. ...

04:05 PM, Nov 01, 2011