DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has finally received the much awaited permission from the Ministry of Personnel to file a charge-sheet against Member of Parliament Sajjan Kumar for his alleged in involvement in the 1984 November riots.
According to CBI sources the written sanction was received last week following which the Special Investigation Cell (I) Investigating the case is preparing the necessary documents to file along with the charge-sheet in the court of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate within the next few days.
Union Home Minister S.B.Chavan has already made a statement in Parliament that Sajjan Kumar would be charge-sheeted soon.
Sajjan Kumar who is the Lok Sabha MP from Outer Delhi was arrested by the CBI on September 111990 with five others in connection with the murder of Naveen Singh during the 1984 riots that followed Indira Gandhi’s assassination
However since Sajjan Kumar had managed to obtain anticipatory bail from the Delhi High Court before CBI officials arrived at his heavily guarded house at Madipur in West Delhi he had to be released immediately. The other five accused however were remanded to judicial custody.
CBI officials were almost lynched by thousands of the MP’s supporters who gathered outside his house and ran amok. They even damaged CBI vehicles. It was only after Sajjan Kumar himself and senior officials of Delhi Police who had rushed to the spot by then assured the mob that the Congress leader was not being taken into custody that the agitators allowed the CBI officials to leave the premises.
CBl had registered a case against Sajjan Kumar on September 71990 on the recommendation of the Poti-Rosha Committee. The committee had apparently taken cognizance of an affidavit filed by Anwar Kaur widow of Naveen Singh.
The affidavit was initially filed by Kaur before the Jain-Ranerjee Committee claiming that Sajjan Kumar had been present at the spot when her husband was slain and that he had also been instrumental in instigating the crowd to kill Naveen Singh. The committee had then recommended that a case be registered against Sajjan Kumar but the Delhi High Court in a ruling on a writ petition filed by Sajjan Kumar had observed that the committee was not authorized to accept or act on any such allegations.
After National Front Government came to power in 1989 Air chief Marshal (reted) Arjan Singh who was appoint Lt. Governor of Delhi issued a fresh notification on March 221990 to constitute the Poti-Rosha Committee.
Article extracted from this publication >> May 1, 1992
