Police probe in ’84 riots case tainted: CBI to Delhi HC

Delhi | Wednesday | 17th October, 2018

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Delhi High Court (Express photo: Ravi Kanojia/File) Delhi High Court (Express photo: Ravi Kanojia/File)The CBI Tuesday informed the Delhi High Court that the probe carried out by the Delhi Police in connection with 1984 anti-Sikh riots was “tainted” and it has “forged records” to favour former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar. The agency told a bench of Justice S Muralidhar and Justice Vinod Goel that Kumar was the main “conspirator of the massacre”. The CBI sought enhancement of Kumar’s sentence and opposed a plea against the court’s verdict. For all the latest Delhi News, download Indian Express App Kumar, in his defence, had said that there was no allegation against him of instigating a mob on October 31, 1984..