1984 riots: Delhi court to pronounce order on Sajjan Kumars plea

December 11, 2013 09:07

A Delhi court will on Wednesday pronounce its order on a plea of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar seeking to drop nine CBI witnesses in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which he and three others are facing prosecution.

On December 02, District judge JR Aryan had fixed December 11 for pronouncing the order after hearing arguments of the counsel for the CBI, accused and the victims.

The CBI had earlier said though the chargesheet pertains to killing of six persons but it was only restricting the charge relating to murder of Surjit Singh and not of other deceased persons in respect of whom the trial had already taken place.

Kumar and three other accused, in their plea, have sought removal of agency's witnesses claiming they were "irrelevant".

Kumar's counsel had earlier said that the CBI had filed a consolidated chargesheet of three separate FIRs and the nine prosecution witnesses, who are not related to the murder of victim Surjit Singh, should be removed.

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