The SAD chief said a lower court verdict, in a 1984 riots case related to the murder of three people, had hurt the sentiments of the Sikh community which awaiting final closure to the wounds afflicted by the genocide.
The court has heard arguments from both sides and now the matter is listed on December 16 for formal framing of charges.
A two-judge bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, said it is not inclined to grant Sajjan Kumar bail on medical grounds. The 75-year-old Kumar is serving life imprisonment after the Delhi High Court had convicted him and others in the case on December 17, 2018.
A bench of justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M M Sundresh said it is not inclined to grant him bail on medical grounds.
Senior advocate Vikas Singh, representing Kumar, submitted before a bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hrishikesh Roy that his client should be taken to a private hospital for treatment as his condition had not been determined at a government hospital. The top court directed the CBI to verify Kumar's medical condition, who is serving life imprisonment in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
'It is not a small case. We cannot grant bail,' the court said.
Sajjan Kumar was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Delhi High Court on December 17, 2018, while describing the mass killings as 'crimes against humanity'.
Kumar was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Delhi High Court on December 17, 2018
Sajjan Kumar was convicted in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case by the Delhi High Court and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
This is the second case against Sajjan Kumar in which he is facing trial along with two others, Brahmanand Gupta and Ved Prakash on charges of murder and rioting pertaining to the killing of Surjit Singh in Delhi’s Sultanpuri.
