NEW DELHI: Additional sessions Judge Shiv Narain Dhingra criticized the defence, in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot case involving former Union Minister H.K.L, Bhagat, for demand WAR eat to ‘one at a time thereby delaying .
Mr, Dhingra said the moving of applications one by one, for supply of documents, was “delaying and hampering the case.”
‘The admonition from Mr. Dhin; followed the defense’s filing its application for supply of documents.
Dhingra fence counsel Ashish Bhagat:” You should file one application for the supply of documents, instead, this is your third application, and this is delaying the case.
‘The judge asked for prosecution to provide within one week copies of the reports of the Jain Agarwal and Justice R.N, Mishra commissions on the riots, to the defence.
The prosecution filed fresh pees which the defence found to be unclear; the defence contended that the prosecution could not provide the copy of the death certificate of Mohan Singh, Satnami Bai’s husband.
About the defense’s demand of supply of copies of all the statements made by i Bai, Mr. Dhingra ruled that only copies of the statements of Satnami Bai, Mr. Dhingra ruled that only copies of the statements of Satnami Bai which relate to the present case would be provide.
All the accused, including the senior Congress leader, were present in the court. The next date of the hearing is March 22.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 20, 1996
