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A 1984 anti-Sikh riots case involving Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and his alleged accomplices will go to trial after the Delhi High Court dismissed all the pleas of who alleged suspects facing framing of murder and rioting charges on Tuesday.
Justice Suresh Kait insisted that the trial must resume as he refused to dismiss the charges against Kumar, co-accused Ved Prakash Pial alias Vedu Pradhan and Brahmanand Gupta. The case also involves around six brutal killings in Delhi’s Sultanpuri area.
Six people were killed in the riots following the assassination of former premier Indira Gandhi in 1984. The lower court framed charges against Kumar, Gupta, Peru, Khushal Singh and Pial in connection with the killings. The accused also face charges for the offence of spreading enmity between two communities against the accused in the case.
In 2010, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed two charge sheets against the accused in the riots cases registered in 2005. On the other hand, a lower court recently acquitted Kumar in another 1984 anti-Sikh riots case but five other accused were held guilty for offences including murder.
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