New Delhi: A criminal case was registered on Tuesday against unknown people who tried to fraudulently claim compensation for 41 people by getting their names added to the list of the dead during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a police source said.
The Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police registered the case almost 10 days after the fraud came to light in a screening committee meeting of the police anti-riot cell and the Delhi government's revenue department, the source informed.
The government had planned to give compensation to the residents of north Delhi's Sultanpuri and Mangolpuri area who were killed during 1984 Sikh riots.
The anti-riot cell was instructed to check on the 41 names enlisted among those who were killed in the riots, sources said....
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04:20 AM, Jun 05, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi High Court judge on Friday recused himself from hearing a plea of senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler challenging a lower court order by which the CBI was asked to further investigate his role in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. "In any case, I am not going to hear it. Put this matter on July 3 before another bench," Justice Kailash Gambhir said, without assigning any reasons...
03:07 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will decide on a plea filed by Congress leader Jagdish Tytler challenging the trial court's decision to order the re-opening of a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against him. Tytler had moved the High Court on Wednesday challenging the trial court's order which had set aside a clean chit given to him by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a 29-year-old anti-Sikh riots case...
09:25 AM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on Wednesday moved Delhi High Court against the trial court's order for reopening of investigation against him in a 29-year-old anti-Sikh riots case in which three persons were killed. Tytler has challenged the trial court order setting aside the CBI's closure report giving him clean chit in the case. The appeal is likely to be listed on Friday for hearing. "The trial court order...
04:49 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear the appeal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar to quash charges of murder and rioting framed against him in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. He is accused in the murders of six people in the Sultanpuri area of New Delhi. Earlier in May, Sajjan was acquitted of all charges in another case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. District and Sessions Judge JR Aryan...
07:58 AM, May 24, 2013
Bangalore: Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily on Friday said the Congress would not protect anybody and the law would take its own course on senior party leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. "Our heart goes out to the victims. We are not here to protect anybody. The law will take its own course," Moily said, while noting that the Congress leadership had owned up 'moral responsibility' as...
02:40 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New York: In the wake of a Delhi Court ordering the reopening of a case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler related to the 1984 anti-Sikh violence, a US based Sikh group would seek a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe. Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a New York based human rights advocacy group, announced on Wednesday that it will file a writ petition before Delhi High Court asking it to set up...
11:43 AM, Apr 11, 2013
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
Time hasn't healed the scars of '84 victims who lost everything in the riots. ...
02:52 AM, Nov 03, 2009
Dikshit reminds that they had won with huge margins before, though. ...
12:34 PM, Apr 10, 2009
The CBI is also hoping to quash the FIR in the 1984 riots case. ...
11:09 AM, Apr 02, 2009
Surinder Singh will give his statement to the CBI on Wednesday in New York. ...
01:02 AM, Dec 24, 2008
