"Age Won't Help": Ex-Cop Must Be Punished For 1984 Riots, Says Court
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1984 Riots: A retired cop was charged for not making any preventive detention, not deploying proper forces in the area of posting and not taking any action in dispersing miscreants during the anti sikh riots in 1984
Observing the "nation was still bleeding" years after the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, the Delhi High Court on Monday granted liberty to the competent authority to issue an "appropriate order of punishment" to a retired city police officer who allegedly failed to deploy adequate force, make preventive detentions and take action to break up mobs during the violence.
The bench headed by Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma, while setting aside the orders passed by the disciplinary authority and the Central Administrative Tribunal against the then station house officer of Kingsway Camp police station, said innocent lives were lost in the riots and the police officer "cannot get away" on account of his advanced age of 79 years.
"He may be 100 (years old). Kindly see the misconduct. Innocent people lost their lives. The nation is still bleeding. On that ground, you cannot get away. Age will not help," said the bench, also comprising Justice Subramonium Prasad.
The disciplinary authority, without recommending any punitive action, held him guilty of misconduct during the anti-Sikh riots.
