Sajjan conviction: Honour witnesses, SGPC urged

  • | Friday | 18th January, 2019

Even other advocates who had played an important role as part of the prosecution team of the CBI including D P Singh, Hiral Gupta, Manu Mishra and Smrithi Suresh should be given due recognition, he said, adding even Phoolka’s team of lawyers including Kamna Vohra and Shilpa Dewan should be honoured. He said senior advocate and CBI special prosecutor R S Cheema’s role was very important in this case, who along with his daughter Tarannum, won a rare victory for the CBI after 34 years by digging out minutest details and presenting the daily dairy of the Raj Nagar police station under whose jurisdiction 34 Sikhs had been killed in November 1984.Similarly, Gurbaksh Singh and his team of lawyers – Jarnail Singh and Jasleen Chahal, had represented Jagsher Singh in the case. CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal has urged the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee ( SGPC to honour witnesses and all lawyers associated with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which Congress leader Sajjan Kumar has been imprisoned for life.While Sukhbir welcomed SGPC’s deicion to honour three witnesses in the case including Jagdish Kaur, Nirpreet Kaur and Jagsher Singh, but he said, “I feel it would be in the fitness of things to honour both the witnesses and lawyers instead of only honouring the witnesses first.” The SAD supremo said that he had also made a request to the SGPC president in this regard stating that the Sikh community was keen that all the lawyers in this case, as well as, those who had assisted the prosecution should be honoured by the apex Sikh body.Sukhbir said while the role of senior advocate H S Phoolka, who was complainant Jagdish Kaur’s advocate, was well known but there were other unsung heroes also who needed to be given due recognition by the Sikh panth.

CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal has urged the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee ( SGPC to honour witnesses and all lawyers associated with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which Congress leader Sajjan Kumar has been imprisoned for life.While Sukhbir welcomed SGPC’s deicion to honour three witnesses in the case including Jagdish Kaur, Nirpreet Kaur and Jagsher Singh, but he said, “I feel it would be in the fitness of things to honour both the witnesses and lawyers instead of only honouring the witnesses first.” The SAD supremo said that he had also made a request to the SGPC president in this regard stating that the Sikh community was keen that all the lawyers in this case, as well as, those who had assisted the prosecution should be honoured by the apex Sikh body.Sukhbir said while the role of senior advocate H S Phoolka, who was complainant Jagdish Kaur’s advocate, was well known but there were other unsung heroes also who needed to be given due recognition by the Sikh panth. He said senior advocate and CBI special prosecutor R S Cheema’s role was very important in this case, who along with his daughter Tarannum, won a rare victory for the CBI after 34 years by digging out minutest details and presenting the daily dairy of the Raj Nagar police station under whose jurisdiction 34 Sikhs had been killed in November 1984.Similarly, Gurbaksh Singh and his team of lawyers – Jarnail Singh and Jasleen Chahal, had represented Jagsher Singh in the case. Even other advocates who had played an important role as part of the prosecution team of the CBI including D P Singh, Hiral Gupta, Manu Mishra and Smrithi Suresh should be given due recognition, he said, adding even Phoolka’s team of lawyers including Kamna Vohra and Shilpa Dewan should be honoured.

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