New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila
Dikshit today declined comment on granting of bail to Sajjan
Kumar, chargesheeted for his alleged role in anti-Sikh riots
cases, but said justice gets delayed in India.
"I do not want to comment on anything that the courts did
or did not but we do know that justice gets delayed in our
country," she said when asked about her reaction on granting
of bail to the Congress leader by a Delhi court.
The court had on February 23 issued fresh non-bailable
warrants against Kumar and 11 others for failing to appear
before it.
The former outer Delhi MP, who was untraceable for some
days, appeared before the Court of Additional Chief
Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar Sharma which granted him
bail in the case.
Dikshit said "there are so many changes that are required
in law because justice delayed is justice denied."
"Judiciary has its own pros and cons and ifs and buts and
arguments and so on...what happens is not really for me to
comment," she said.
The CBI had on January 13 chargesheeted Kumar in a
court in two separate cases of allegedly making provocative
speeches, leading to the killing of 12 people in the riots
that followed the assassination of then prime minister Indira
Gandhi.
-PTI
First Published: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 22:55