A Particular Courtroom on Wednesday convicted Congress chief Sajjan Kumar in a case associated to the homicide of a father and son in the course of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
The order was handed by Particular Choose Kaveri Baweja of Rouse Avenue Courts. The choose listed the case for February 18, to listen to the arguments on the quantum of sentence.
Kumar was convicted for offences underneath Sections 302 (homicide),147 (rioting), 148 (rioting armed with lethal weapon), 149 (each member of illegal meeting responsible of offence dedicated in prosecution of widespread object), 308 ( try and culpable murder), 323 (voluntarily inflicting damage), 395 (dacoity), aside from different costs framed in opposition to the Congress chief in 2021.
Prosecution alleged that on November 1, 1984, a mob of greater than 1,000 folks, led by Kumar, killed S Jaswant Singh and his son S Tarun Deep Singh, residents of Raj Nagar in West Delhi, in the course of the anti-Sikh riots.
A complainant, whose identification was hid, had submitted an affidavit on September 9, 1985, on the premise of which a First Info Report (FIR) was lodged in opposition to Kumar.
The Ministry of Residence Affairs (MHA) constituted a Particular Investigation Workforce (SIT) in 2015 to reinvestigate the instances of 1984 riots, following which the complainant recorded her assertion on November 23, 2016.
Kumar was arrested on April 6, 2021, whereas he was present process life imprisonment at Tihar Jail in one other case associated to the 1984 riots.
The prosecution alleged that the previous Congress chief, instigated the illegal meeting of greater than 1,000 folks to take pleasure in large-scale looting, arson and rioting.
