SIT should call Sonia, Rahul for narco test, says Sukhbir
NEW DELHI: Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday urged the special investigation team probing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases to summon former Congress president Sonia Gandhi for a ‘narco test’.
He alleged that planning of the attacks on Sikhs, after former prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated, was done at Rajiv Gandhi’s residence and, so, Sonia Gandhi was an “important witness” in the case.
He also demanded that Congress president Rahul Gandhi should also be called by the SIT.
However, there was no immediate reaction from the Congress, though the party had on Tuesday welcomed the court order saying it was “proud” that the legal process was being allowed to work out its course.
Addressing a press conference here, Sukhbir said, “The1984 anti-Sikh riots was planned at the residence of Rajiv Gandhi, who headed the Congress at the time, and his wife Sonia Gandhi knows everything about it.”
Sukhbir said due to a fresh probe by the SIT, the first conviction in the riots case came where one person was given death sentence and another a life term by a Delhi court on Tuesday.
“All the accused Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler and others were given directions by Rajiv Gandhi and the planning was done at his residence...Sonia Gandhi is a very important witness, because the planning was done at her residence. She has to be called by the SIT,” he said.