SC to hear Sajjan Kumar’s plea against punishment on Sep 24
NEW DELHI [Maha Media]: The Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred to September 24 the hearing on the pleas filed by former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and the party’s former councillor Balwan Khokhar against sentences awarded in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi deferred the matter as Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, for CBI, was not available.
In July, 2024, the apex court asked the CBI to respond to Khokhar’s plea seeking the reprieve.
Khokhar’s life sentence was upheld by the Delhi High Court in 2018 whereas it reversed Kumar’s acquittal by a trial court in 2013, in a case related to the killings of five Sikhs in the Raj Nagar Part-I area in Palam Colony in southwest Delhi on November 1-2, 1984, apart from the setting ablaze of a gurdwara in Raj Nagar Part-II.
In his plea, Khokhar said the jail authorities had rejected his plea for furlough on September 26, 2024, saying his release would invite adverse repercussions and disturb peace and tranquillity in the society, prompting unrest.
