The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday filed two charge sheets against former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar and others in two cases of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The agency said he incited a mob of around 300-400 people to kill, burn Sikhs and pillage their houses.
Two charge sheets were filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate [...]
Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar instigated a mob of around 300-400 people in Delhi’s Sultanpuri and Palam areas of Delhi Nov 1, 1984, to kill Sikhs and pillage their houses, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said in its charge sheet before a city court Wednesday.
The CBI filed charge sheets against Sajjan Kumar and [...]
Congress leader Sajjan Kumar Wednesday submitted before the Delhi High Court that the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case should not be heard and they do not have the right to file an appeal against him. His plea was turned down.
Sajjan Kumar made this submission through his counsel and senior advocate I.U. Khan and [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Congress leader Sajjan Kumar could be in for trouble with Delhi Lt Governor Tejendra Khanna Thursday giving the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) the go-ahead to prosecute him in murder and communal rioting cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh carnage.
‘Lt Governor Tejendra Khanna has given the nod to the CBI [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Congress leader Sajjan Kumar could be in for trouble with Delhi Lt-Governor Tejendra Khanna Thursday giving the go-ahead to prosecute him in murder and communal riots cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh violence.
‘Lieutenant-governor Tejendra Khanna has given the nod to the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) to prosecute Sajjan Kumar,’ [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Congress leader Sajjan Kumar could be in for trouble with Delhi Lt-Governor Tejendra Khanna Thursday giving the go-ahead to prosecute him in cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
‘Lt-governor Tejendra Khanna has given the nod to the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) to prosecute Sajjan Kumar,’ a Raj Bhavan source [...]
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) Upset over reference to his name in Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s remarks during the calling attention motion on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the Rajya Sabha, Congress leader Jagdish Tytler has sought a clarification from the home ministry.
Tytler, who is incharge of Bihar at the All India Congress Committee office, [...]
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) Pleading helplessness in the matter, the Lok Sabha Housing Committee said Monday that political parties should ask their former MPs to vacate official residences in the capital they continue to hold long after ceasing to be parliament members.
‘We cannot do anything about this problem. We can just ask for a [...]
New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) The Samajwadi Party Sunday accused the central government of misusing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for favouring ‘persons close to the party.’
Party general secretary Amar Singh said Sunday that cases against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi were withdrawn based on the advice of the solicitor general but the advice of [...]
New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) The Samajwadi Party Sunday accused the central government of misusing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for favouring ‘persons close to the party.’
Party general secretary Amar Singh said Sunday that cases against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi were withdrawn based on the advice of the solicitor general but the advice of [...]
Chandigarh, Nov 22 (IANS) Two Sikh organisations have written to US President Barack Obama, seeking his intervention in getting justice for thousands of victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots by taking up the issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when they meet this week.
In an open letter to Obama, US-based human rights advocacy group Sikhs [...]
New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) Jarnail Singh, the Sikh journalist who hurled his shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram at a press conference to protest the injustice meted out to the victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots, has been conferred an award by the community in Cananda.
Set to release his book ‘I Accused…’ on the anti-Sikh [...]
New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Jarnail Singh, the Sikh journalist who created headlines for throwing a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram for the injustice committed towards the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, has written a book on the riots.
The book — to be released here Friday — is titled ‘I Accuse…’ in English [...]
