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Charges Framed against 5 in 1984 Pogroms Case
July 1, 2005 | 3 Comments
A sessions court in New Delhi framed charges against Harprasad Bhardwaj, Kamlesh, Suraj Giri, RP Tiwari and Jagdish Giri for the murder of three people, rioting, and mischief by fire:
[T]he accused allegedly stabbed and lynched a constable, his son and another relative at the Shahdara railway station.
The prosecution told the court that Bhardwaj allegedly led a mob that ravaged the Shahdara railway station and killed the constable and two others in November, 1984.
The FIR in the case was lodged in 1996, when constable Niranjan Singh’s wife Harvinder Kaur, who was rescued by the Army, lodged a complaint with the Jain and Banerjee committee constituted to look into the anti-Sikh riots.
Former Union minister HKL Bhagat was also named as an accused in the case filed by the CBI but he was discharged due to lack of evidence.
The prosecution told the court that Bhardwaj allegedly led a mob that ravaged the Shahdara railway station and killed the constable and two others in November, 1984.
The FIR in the case was lodged in 1996, when constable Niranjan Singh’s wife Harvinder Kaur, who was rescued by the Army, lodged a complaint with the Jain and Banerjee committee constituted to look into the anti-Sikh riots.
Former Union minister HKL Bhagat was also named as an accused in the case filed by the CBI but he was discharged due to lack of evidence.
ENSAAF’s report Twenty Years of Impunity describes how grave lapses in police investigations, delays in filing cases, the failure to identify and investigate prosecution witnesses, the deliberate misrecording of witness statements, and the failure to comply with legal procedures precluded effective prosecutions against major perpetrators.
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