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Bhagat exonerated in Delhi riots case

A Delhi court Monday exonerated senior Congress leader and former Union minister, H K L Bhagat, in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case, after he was given a clean chit by the Delhi police.

Metropolitan Magistrate J P Narain accepted a police report which said Bhagat's presence could not be established during the riots in Mansarovar Park in east Delhi on November 1, 1984, in the aftermath of the killing of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi by her two security guards.

However, the court issued summons to five co-accused -- Har Parshad Bhardwaj, Ram Prakash Tiwari, Jagdish Giri, Suraj Giri and Kamlesh.

The case was registered against Bhagat in 1996 on a complaint made by a widow, Harvinder Kaur, who lost her husband, son and son-in-law in the Mansarovar riots.

The police report said the five accused too in their statements had refuted the charges made against Bhagat.

The chargesheet in the case was filed on December 22, 1998, two years after the registration of FIR.

PTI

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