The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a response from the CBI to the bail plea of former Congress councillor Balwan Khokhar, sentenced to life imprisonment in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, on several grounds including having already served almost nine years in jail.

Besides Khokhar, former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar and ex-MLA Mahender Yadav are serving life imprisonment and 10-year jail term respectively in the same case.
A bench comprising Justices S K Kaul and Abhay S Oka took note of the submission that Khokhar has undergone eight years and 10 months of imprisonment so far in the case besides being 50 per cent handicapped.