Advocate I U Khan, appearing for Sajjan Kumar and continuing final arguments before District Judge J R Aryan, said CBI had put pressure over the witnesses to depose that they had seen him allegedly instigating the mob during the riots in Raj Nagar area of Delhi Cantonment here.
"CBI had forced several witnesses to give statement against Kumar and when they refused to depose on its line, the agency dropped them. This is tainted investigation," he said.
He referred to the statement of defence witness Baldev Raj Khanna, who had deposed in the court that CBI was putting pressure on him to say that he had seen Kumar and two other co-accused indulging in riot activities.
He said Khanna had deposed that one Manoj Pangarkar of CBI had pressurised him to name Kumar but he had told the officer that when he had not seen the former MP in the area, how can he name him. (more)