NEW DELHI: The Delhi government has requested the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to hasten the probe into the cases pertaining to the November 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the Capital. The chief secretary of Delhi R. K. Takkar has also been asked to review all such cases and report their status.
Mr .Dave said the demand for the prosecution and punishment of the guilty persons could be said to be of interest to every public man. The chief minister therefore was also bound to be interested in the progress of the investigations and prosecution of the guilty.
We have asked the chief secretary to review the whole thing and where cases had been handed over to the CBI we have handed over to the CBI we have made a request to speed up the investigations.
He said that there was no justification for the Narula committee’s observation that Justice Jain was asked to wind up his work prematurely He was granted as much time as he had requested. Answering a question on work accumulating with the anti-corruption department of the Delhi government Dave said that corruption was all-pervasive in the capital. Though the anti-corruption work was being looked after by a DCP working directly under the chief secretary he would want that an additional chief secretary be appointed solely to look into the complaints of corruption.
The Lt. Governor also expressed his unhappiness over the manner in which government litigation was earned out mostly by lawyers appointed because of their political affiliations. Why should the distribution of government litigation work be treated like this? Ask any judge and he would tell you that the government litigation was most inefficient and callously conducted whether it pertained to criminal civil or writ litigation. The government litigation should be conducted by the lawyers because of their professional ability and certainly not because they were affiliates of one political party or the other.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 18, 1994
