NEW DELHI, Jan 15: The Delhi High Court has rejected a petition by the All India National Sikh Association and over 300 individuals claiming to be victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots demanding allotment of government accommodation. Maintaining that their claim was not genuine, Justices Devinder Gupta and K. Ramamoorthy said since the petitioners had failed to prove they were really affected by the riots the government's contention that they were unauthorised occupants of government premises was being accepted. The Delhi government and MCD had maintained that 464 people, claiming to be 1984 riots victims had - between February 12 and February 17, 1997 - unauthorisedly occupied some government houses that were lying vacant at Raghubir Nagar in West Delhi. Insisting that the petitioners could not claim right over those houses, state government in its affidavit said: ``At least 386 people who occupied the houses were not even able to furnish any documents to prove they were actually the riot victims, while 157others could not specify about the quantum of loss that they had suffered.''CP shootout case: `Briefing for peaceful raid was conducted'.Inspector Ram Mehar posted in the special cell of Lodhi colony police station admitted to the court on Friday that a regular briefing was held to nab UP based dreaded gangster Yaseen before former ACP S S Rathi went to Connaught Place where a shootout took place in 1997.Mehar who had initially deposed to the court on Wednesday was cross-examined on Friday by defence counsel B.L. Kalra. On being questioned, Mehar agreed that a briefing session was held by Rathi where it was decided that the raid would be effected peacefully.
