Summary:
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to apprise it of the status of the ongoing trial in a case involving former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case and listed his bail plea for hearing on April 15. More than 3,000 Sikhs were brutally killed in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, one of the scariest incidents of communal violence in the country. Congress leaders Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar were accused of masterminding the riots against the Sikh community. Mehta also told the bench it would be a "travesty of justice" if Kumar is enlarged on bail as he is facing trial in another 1984 anti-Sikh riots case at Patiala House district court here. The riots had broken out following the assassination of former prime minister Indira Gandhi on October 31 by her Sikh bodyguards..