“Investigation of the case was completed long ago and the trial against the accused has already begun after framing of charges and even eight prosecution witnesses stand examined on record out of the total 21 witnesses cited in the list of witnesses and six other witnesses of the list stand already dropped,” noted Judge Nagpal.
The Court further considered the fact that the statement of one of the victims, who is the daughter of the complainant was recorded for the first time only after about 32 years.
Besides, though the statement of the other victim, who is the niece of the complainant, was recorded after around 7-8 years from the date of incident, no claim of having witnessed the purported killings or the accused’s identity, was ever made.
Kumar is currently serving life imprisonment in Tihar jail after the Delhi High Court convicted him in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case on December 17, 2018.
Source: Barandbench
