Arvind Kejriwal Demands Special Investigation Team Probe Into 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots

[WaljinderSingh]

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has demanded that a Special Investigation Team inquire into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that followed the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.

He met Delhi's Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung today to discuss the matter and said he "is very positive on it. We will discuss the special investigation team formation and its terms in the next cabinet meeting."

The Chief Minister's demand is set to further strain ties between his Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress, which provides external support to it.

An SIT probe is part of AAP's election manifesto, but Mr Kejriwal has brought up the issue only two days after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, in a television interview, drew a distinction between the Narendra Modi government's handling of the 2002 Gujarat riots and the 1984 riots in Delhi. He said the Congress government had tried to stop the violence in Delhi, while Mr Modi had "abetted it" in Gujarat.

The BJP's Arun Jaitley has countered Mr Gandhi by saying, "Rahul Gandhi is ill-informed. In 1984, police hardly fired at the rioters, it was in collusion with the government. In Gujarat, 300 rioters died in police firing. Around 65,000 rioters were arrested in Gujarat... more than 4,000 cases have been charge-sheeted and hundreds have been convicted."

The BJP too met Mr Jung today and has, along with its political partner the Shiromani Akali Dal, demanded an SIT probe in the riots 30 years ago.

Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said, "Our party is ready for any logical or judicial inquiry into the riots."

Senior Congress leaders like Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar are facing cases in courts for allegedly instigating rioters after Mrs Gandhi's assassination on October 31, 1984, but the party has never taken action against them.

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[singhbj singh]

Arvind Kejriwal writes to President seeking clemency for Bhullar

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 13:28

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has written to President Pranab Mukherjee seeking clemency for Khalistan Liberation Force terrorist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar.

The Aam Aadmi Party leader's move is being viewed as a bid to appease the Sikhs ahead of the General Elections.

According to PTI, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear in an open court the plea of Bhullatr for commutation of death sentence awarded to him for the September 1993 blast to life imprisonment.

The hearing in the open court assumes importance in view of the January 21 judgement of five-judge constitutional bench holding that inordinate and inexplicable delay by government in deciding mercy plea of death row convicts can be a ground for commuting their sentence.

Bhullar was convicted and awarded death penalty for triggering a bomb blast in New Delhi in September 1993, which killed nine persons and injured 25 others, including then Youth Congress president MS Bitta.

The apex court had on March 26, 2002 dismissed Bhullar's appeal against the death sentence awarded by a trial court in August 2001 and endorsed by the Delhi high court in 2002.

He had filed a review petition which was also dismissed on December 17, 2002. Bhullar had then moved a curative petition which too had been rejected by the apex court on March 12, 2003.

Bhullar, meanwhile, had filed a mercy petition before the President on January 14, 2003.

The President, after a lapse of over eight years, dismissed his mercy plea on May 14, 2011. Citing the delay, he had again moved the apex court for commutation of the death sentence but his plea was rejected.

Source - http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/arvind-kejriwal-writes-to-president-seeking-clemency-for-bhullar_907632.html

[lsingh]

Kejriwal has done more in 30 days for Sikh Human Rights than the Badal Dal and Sikh institutions have done in 30 years. Now why can't our Sants and Babas push for this kind of action?

[lsingh]

The role of the whole Indian establishment needs to be investigated.Government, Police, Army were all involved in the Genocide.

[WaljinderSingh]