New Delhi: Nearly three decades after 2,500 Sikhs were killed in the 1984 riots, a Delhi court will on Tuesday pronounce its verdict on the role of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and five others in the killing of Sikhs. The case against Sajjan Kumar was opened on the recommendation of the Nanavati Commission.
Sajjan Kumar has maintained a stoic silence on his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. In the past 29 years, the Congress leader has never spoken to the media about the allegations levelled against him.
But now a Delhi court is all set to decide his fate for the murder of five Sikhs in the Raj Nagar area of Delhi Cantonment on November 1, 1984 following the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.
The CBI has told the court that Sajjan Kumar visited the Raj Nagar area on the night of November 1, 1984 and he was seen supervising the violence, instigating the mobs and in the words of key witnesses, telling rioters not to spare anyone who gave shelter to a Sikh....
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Bhubaneswar: Amidst demands for his arrest for giving a provocative speech at a Congress rally on September 6, Congress Leader Jagdish Tytler will meet Minister of State of PMO Narayanasamy in Bhubaneshwar on Thursday. This comes nearly a week after the state Congress leaders clashed with policemen outside the Assembly and injured several, including a woman constable. Two police organisations and the ruling BJD have demanded arrest of Tytler accusing...
06:53 AM, Sep 13, 2012
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04:02 PM, Sep 08, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Under fire from friends and foes alike, Odisha Congress in-charge Jagdish Tytler on Saturday defended himself over the mob violence that broke out outside the state Assembly on Thursday in which a lady constable was attacked, saying that he was not a part of any conspiracy and that the police were equally to blame. The Odisha Police on Saturday filed a case against Tytler for the mob violence and...
01:32 PM, Sep 08, 2012
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Police on Saturday filed a case against state Congress in-charge Jagdish Tytler for the mob violence outside the Assembly on Thursday. Tytler and six others were booked for attempt to murder, rioting and damage to public property. The police has arrested 34 people so far in connection with the protests. The FIRs were filed after the lady constable who was attacked during the violence claimed that Tytler...
10:39 AM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: At least one person died and many others injured on Sunday night after a mob set afire a police booth and a bus after alleged reports of a policeman beating up a two-wheeler rider for losing control and riding into a police barricade. Few shops and vehicles were also damaged, even as the police said the man was in a drunken state and have denied any physical assault....
11:51 PM, Sep 02, 2012
New Delhi: One person died and two others were injured as clashed erupted between locals and police in East Delhi. Though police have denied firing at the mob and have claimed that they only used tear gas to disperse the crowd, bullet injuries have reportedly been found on the body of the dead and those injured. The incident was reported at 8 pm from Mayur Vihar Phase-III. Heavy police force...
10:14 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Angry mob pelted stones, destroyed police vehicles and damaged a petrol pump. ...
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08:33 AM, May 28, 2007
Four people were killed in police firing in Hyderabad on Friday hours after an explosion hit the Mecca mosque. ...
11:39 PM, May 18, 2007
Fresh violence broke out at Shivaji Nagar area in Bangalore on Sunday when an angry mob went on a rampage. ...
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