Summary:
Equating the killing of Sikhs during the 1984 riots to the “mass extermination of Jews by Nazis”, the CBI opposed riots convict Sajjan Kumar’s bail plea in the Supreme Court, stating that he “is a political leader with a large political clout… and is capable of influencing/terrorising witnesses”. The “large number of acquittals in 1984 riot cases demonstrated” his “power and influence”, the affidavit said. Rather several complaints of riot victims were clubbed together…,” it said. Advertising“The brutal murder of innocent Sikhs during the 1984 riots falls under the category of crimes against humanity, on par with well-known genocides worldwide like the large-scale killing of Armenians by Kurds and Turks, the mass extermination of Jews by Nazis, the mass killing of Bangladeshi citizens by Pakistani Army sympathisers and the mass killing during various ethnic riots within India also,” the agency said in its affidavit, filed in response to Kumar’s plea. The CBI also submitted that his age being 73 “is of no relevance, especially when seen in light of the offence for which he has been convicted…” Kumar was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on December 17, 2018, in a case relating to the murder of five members of a family during the 1984 riots..