SC refuses to grant interim bail on health grounds to 1984 anti-Sikh riots accused Sajjan Kumar

75-year-old Kumar is serving life imprisonment after the Delhi High Court had convicted him and others in the case on December 17, 2018

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea filed by 1984 anti-Sikh riots convict and former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar for bail in order to get treatment in a big corporate hospital on his own expenses.

“He is accused of heinous crimes. You want him to be treated like some super VIP patient,” a bench presided over by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul told his counsel senior advocate Ranjit Kumar, who claimed that his client’s health was deteriorating and he had also lost a lot of weight.

Kumar’s counsel also referred to a report on his health by a doctor.

However, the bench declined to entertain the plea by Kumar to get him transferred to Medanta hospital, for the treatment.

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The court took into consideration the report submitted by a medical board, which stated that his health was improving.

Rejecting the plea for interim bail on medical grounds, the top court said it was not keen on passing any order and if medical authorities felt that he was required to be examined at Medanta, then they may go ahead with it.

On August 24, the top court had directed the CBI to verify the medical condition of Kumar.

The politician is at present undergoing life imprisonment for his role in a case related to killings of five member of a family in Raj Nagar in Delhi during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

The Delhi High Court had on December 17, 2018 awarded him life imprisonment for the "remainder of his natural life".

In September, last year, the top court declined to entertain the bail petition filed on health grounds.