New Delhi : Delhi High Court is likely to pronounce its verdict on Friday on the pleas of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and others for transfer of their case relating to 1984 anti-Sikh riots alleging bias by one of the members of the division bench hearing the matter.
A bench of Justices Gita Mittal and P S Teji will pass the order on the pleas, which the CBI has sought dismissal of on the ground that it was, an attempt to delay the proceedings. Kumar and others have alleged in their applications that Justice Teji should not hear the matter as he had heard the case as a trial court judge earlier. Countering the submissions, CBI had said that Justice Teji had never conducted trial proceedings in the case and had heard the bail plea only when he was a trial court judge, as being a sessions judge then, he was handling bail matters.
Kumar was acquitted by a trial court in 2013 in the case pertaining to the killing of five Sikhs by a mob in Delhi Cantonment.
