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HC allows Sajjan Kumar's plea

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Press Trust of India New Delhi

Setting aside the trial court's June 2 decision which had dismissed Kumar's plea, Justice Pratibha Rani asked all the parties to appear before the trial court on August 6.

The veteran Congress leader had moved the high court during the summer vacation against denial of the permission to use victim Jagdish Kaur's statements to various judicial commissions, which had probed the 1984 riots.

The trial court had dismissed Kumar's plea on June 2 saying Kaur's statements to judicial commissions cannot be used for any purpose, including that for discrediting her testimony or to impeach her.

Kumar, in his plea had said the affidavits and statements of the complainant and key witness Jagdish Kaur given earlier to the judicial commissions that probed the riots should be allowed to be used to confront her with her recent testimony in the ongoing trial.

 

The former Delhi MP had filed an application saying the CBI prosecutor R S Cheema on July 12, 2010 had told the court that Kaur's affidavits and statement to G T Nanavati and Justice Ranganath Mishra Commissions cannot be used because of contradictions.

The CBI had said as per the provisions of the Commission of Inquiry Act, the affidavits and statements of a witness given before any commission cannot be used against her for the purpose of questioning her testimony. (More)

  

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First Published: Aug 03 2012 | 1:35 PM IST

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