A Delhi Court Former Congress MP for killing two people during anti -Sikh violence 1984 Sajjan Kumar was convicted on Wednesday, Look and the bench Report.
Special Judge of the Roose Avenue Court Accomplished the order And said that arguments about the size of the sentence will take place on February 18 Hindustan Times Report.
On October 31, 1984, a large -scale riots erupted in Delhi, following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. The gang, which is said to have helped some Congress leaders, attacked the Sikhs and burned homes. In Delhi alone, nearly 3,000 Sikhs were killed.
In the case of Kumar’s sentence, the Family members Among the deceased – Jaswant Singh and his son Tarun Deep Singh – a mob, led by him, accused him of burning alive on November 1, 1984 in Saraswati Vihar.
Kumar, who was then the External Congress MP of the External Delhi, accused him of “provoking unruly gang and setting fire to their house.”
The first information report was filed by the police on September 9, 1985. In 1994, the case was shut down after the court said that the evidence collected to begin to prosecute any person was inadequate.
It was reopened in 2015 by a three -member Special Investigation Committee, which was set up to re -investigate anti -Sikh violence cases.
In 2021, the Roose Avenue Court blamed Kumar Riot and kill in case. In a preliminary reading, Kumar Jaswant Singh and Tarun Deep Singh noticed that “not only the gang participant, but also led it.”
When the case was arrested on April 6, 2021, Kumar had already served life imprisonment in the anti -Sikh violence case. In December 2018, the Delhi High Court He was guilty of murder, promoting enmity between groups and defilement of public property.
