New Delhi, Dec 1 (PTI) The Delhi High Court today granted
45-day interim bail to a retired naval officer serving life
term along with two others in a case relating to a 1984
anti-Sikh riots incident in which five members of a family
were killed.
A bench of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Mukta Gupta
freed convict Captain Bhagmal on interim bail on condition
that he will furnish a bail bond of Rs 50,000 with one surety
of the like amount.
The court granted the relief after 86-year-old Bhagmal
sought three months interim bail, saying he needs to undergo
surgery for "enlarged prostate cancer".
Bhagmal, former MCD councillor Balwan Khokar and Girdhari
Lal are the three persons who were awarded life imprisonment
by the trial court in May last year.
While they were sentenced to life imprisonment, two other
convicts -former MLA Mahender Yadav and Kishan Khokar- were
given three years jail term each.
On April 30, last year, the trial court had, however,
acquitted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in the case. Later his
acquittal was challenged by the family members of the victims
in the High Court.
The case relates to the murder of five members of a family
in Raj Nagar area of Delhi Cantonment on November 1, 1984, a
day after the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
The convicts have filed their appeals before the High
Court while CBI also filed its appeal demanding death sentence
for the trio, saying they were engaged in "a planned communal
riot" and "religious cleansing".
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