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CBI to appeal against Sajjan acquittal
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New Delhi (PTI): The CBI is likely to fasten the probe in a case related to 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the Nangloi area in which Sajjan Kumar remains one...
New Delhi (PTI): The CBI is likely to fasten the probe in a case related to 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the Nangloi area in which Sajjan Kumar remains one of the suspects, while it plans to challenge before the Delhi High Court the acquittal of the Congress leader in a separate riots case. 
CBI sources said although the Nangloi case was registered by Delhi Police in 1992, the investigating agency was handed over this case only last year and it plans to quicken the probe process to file the charge sheet. The sources said the name of the Congress politician along with five others was in the list of accused but the police had later allegedly dropped Kumar's name from its FIR. It is alleged that a charge sheet with name of Kumar as accused was also prepared in April, 1992 but it was not produced before the court, the sources said, adding that these are all aspects of its investigation. On the issue of filing an appeal against the acquittal of Kumar in a '84 riots case, they said the agency is likely to wait till the court pronounces verdict on quantum of sentence for those declared guilty in the case. Kumar, a former Lok Sabha MP from Outer Delhi who was refused a Congress ticket for 2009 Lok Sabha elections, still face trial in another 1984 rioting case. In a third case, the Delhi Police have filed a closure report, saying there was no evidence against Kumar to implicate him. CBI sources said the agency's legal department has studied the judgement and highlighted several strong grounda on the basis of which it is likely to approach the Delhi High Court challenging the acquittal. Five others -- Balwan Khokkar, an ex-councillor, Mahender Yadav, an ex-MLA, Kishan Khokkar, Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal -- were convicted for their involvement in the riots that had broken out after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984. Kumar, a former Lok Sabha MP from Outer Delhi who was refused a Congress ticket for 2009 Lok Sabha elections, still faces trial in an another '84 riot case. In a third case, the Delhi Police has filed a closure report saying that there was no evidence against Kumar to implicate him. The CBI sources said their legal department has studied the judgement and highlighted several strong ground on the basis of which the probe agency is likely to approach the Delhi High Court challenging the acquittal of Kumar.
CBI sources said although the Nangloi case was registered by Delhi Police in 1992, the investigating agency was handed over this case only last year and it plans to quicken the probe process to file the charge sheet. The sources said the name of the Congress politician along with five others was in the list of accused but the police had later allegedly dropped Kumar's name from its FIR. It is alleged that a charge sheet with name of Kumar as accused was also prepared in April, 1992 but it was not produced before the court, the sources said, adding that these are all aspects of its investigation. On the issue of filing an appeal against the acquittal of Kumar in a '84 riots case, they said the agency is likely to wait till the court pronounces verdict on quantum of sentence for those declared guilty in the case. Kumar, a former Lok Sabha MP from Outer Delhi who was refused a Congress ticket for 2009 Lok Sabha elections, still face trial in another 1984 rioting case. In a third case, the Delhi Police have filed a closure report, saying there was no evidence against Kumar to implicate him. CBI sources said the agency's legal department has studied the judgement and highlighted several strong grounda on the basis of which it is likely to approach the Delhi High Court challenging the acquittal. Five others -- Balwan Khokkar, an ex-councillor, Mahender Yadav, an ex-MLA, Kishan Khokkar, Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal -- were convicted for their involvement in the riots that had broken out after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984. Kumar, a former Lok Sabha MP from Outer Delhi who was refused a Congress ticket for 2009 Lok Sabha elections, still faces trial in an another '84 riot case. In a third case, the Delhi Police has filed a closure report saying that there was no evidence against Kumar to implicate him. The CBI sources said their legal department has studied the judgement and highlighted several strong ground on the basis of which the probe agency is likely to approach the Delhi High Court challenging the acquittal of Kumar.
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