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The Delhi High Court connected Tuesday asked the Centre and Delhi Police to respond to a plea by Delhi Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa seeking accumulation of a constabulary officer’s study allegedly mentioning the beingness of Congress person Kamal Nath astatine Gurudwara Rakab Ganj Sahib adjacent Parliament House, during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Mr. Sirsa sought a absorption to the authorities to spot connected grounds the study submitted by Gautam Kaul, the past Additional Commissioner of Police, “categorically showing the beingness of Mr. Nath astatine the country of crime, that is, Gurudwara Rakab Ganj Sahib”.
Senior advocator H. S. Phoolka, representing the petitioner, submitted that Mr. Nath’s beingness astatine the transgression country was “well documented successful constabulary records”, too aggregate newspapers had “mentioned his presence” astatine the spot and clip of the incident, but those aspects were “not considered” by the authorities successful its presumption report.
The plea sought a absorption to instrumentality enactment against Mr. Nath successful the FIR lodged successful 1984 astatine Parliament Street constabulary station, successful which 5 persons were named arsenic accused and allegedly accommodated astatine the Congress leader’s house. The accused were discharged owed to insufficient evidence. However, Mr. Nath was ne'er named successful the FIR.
The lawsuit concerns a mob storming Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib. The petition says 2 Sikhs, Inderjeet Singh and Manmohan Singh, were burned live successful the compound by a mob allegedly led by Mr. Nath.
