High court declines to stay Sajjan Kumar’s trial

NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Friday declined to stay the criminal proceedings to be initiated against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

Sajjan Kumar moved the high court, challenging the charges framed against him by the trial court July 1 in a case related to riots in Sultanpuri area here.

The former MP had been charged with murder and rioting apart from other crimes.

Two cases were registered against him for his involvement in the anti-Sikh riots sparked by the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi on Oct 31, 1984.

The apex court had earlier stayed the proceedings against him in one of the cases in which five people were killed in Delhi Cantonment area.