Sajjan Kumar, sentenced in ’84 anti-Sikh riots case, has said Delhi HC did not consider that other political parties may have sought to secure his conviction.
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1. Already 34 years have elapsed after innocent Sikhs were mercilessly killed in Delhi and other places. It has been pointed by legal fraternity that Justice Ranganath Misra Commission (which was entrusted with job of fact finding regarding the anti-Sikh riots) did not do its job in an unbiased and professional manner. In fact there was suppression of facts by the Ranganath Misra Commission. 2. It is a matter of national shame that all these facts had been buried in dirty politics of the Congress party. 3. Now that former MP Sajjan Kumar has been awarded life imprisonment, and he has filed an appeal against his conviction, we citizens should not lose sight of facts. 3. Is there a guarantee that Sajjan Kumar will not get a stay of the High Court order of life imprisonment in the Supreme Court? 4. We as citizens wish to know from legal experts who are not attached to any legal party what needs to be done urgently to ensure that no criminal case, particularly against a politician, drags on and on for years, making a mockery of our judicial system. 5. Incidentally, I wish to say that the way our politicians work, our Courts work, our judicial system works, and way we citizens react to delays in judicial processes, I think are all matters of disgrace. What do we wish to do to save our democracy from adverse impact of such delay?
1. Already 34 years have elapsed after innocent Sikhs were mercilessly killed in Delhi and other places. It has been pointed by legal fraternity that Justice Ranganath Misra Commission (which was entrusted with job of fact finding regarding the anti-Sikh riots) did not do its job in an unbiased and professional manner. In fact there was suppression of facts by the Ranganath Misra Commission. 2. It is a matter of national shame that all these facts had been buried in dirty politics of the Congress party. 3. Now that former MP Sajjan Kumar has been awarded life imprisonment, and he has filed an appeal against his conviction, we citizens should not lose sight of facts. 3. Is there a guarantee that Sajjan Kumar will not get a stay of the High Court order of life imprisonment in the Supreme Court? 4. We as citizens wish to know from legal experts who are not attached to any legal party what needs to be done urgently to ensure that no criminal case, particularly against a politician, drags on and on for years, making a mockery of our judicial system. 5. Incidentally, I wish to say that the way our politicians work, our Courts work, our judicial system works, and way we citizens react to delays in judicial processes, I think are all matters of disgrace. What do we wish to do to save our democracy from adverse impact of such delay?