Law will take its own course: Congress on non-bailable warrant against Sajjan

With a Delhi court issuing a non-bailable warrant against former party MP Sajjan Kumar in 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases, Congress today said the law will take its own course.
    
"Let the law take its own course. There is no need to comment on it," party spokesman Manish Tewari said adding, the matter was under the consideration of the court.

The spokesman said it was for the courts to deal with criminal matters. "It is a legal process which is being played out," he added.

To a query if any action was being contemplated against Kumar, Tewari quoted Indian jurisprudence saying, "a person is innocent till proven guilty". He said once a verdict comes out, then the party will take an appropriate decision.

Asked why was he given the ticket to contest the 2009 Lok Sabha elections and then his candidature was withdrawn, Tewari said the decision not to give ticket to Sajjan Kumar in the polls "was taken in a particular context".

The non-bailable warrant against Kumar opens the possibility of his arrest by CBI ahead of his anticipatory bail plea hearing tomorrow in the Delhi high court.
    
Kumar, who was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1980, was given party nomination in the 2009 polls. His candidature was withdrawn after an uproar among the Sikh community and following the incident in which a shoe was thrown by a Sikh journalist at Home Minister P Chidambaram in protest against alleged inaction against the accused in the 1984 riots.

Kumar was replaced by his brother Ramesh Kumar who won the south Delhi Lok Sabha seat.