Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar. File | Photograph Credit score: PTI
The Delhi Excessive Courtroom on Friday stated it should hear in November an enchantment by former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar difficult his conviction and life imprisonment in a homicide case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
The enchantment was scheduled to return up for listening to earlier than a bench of Justices Vivek Chaudhary and Manoj Jain, which didn’t maintain the court docket. The matter has now been fastened for November 19.
Kumar was awarded life imprisonment on February 25 by a trial court docket right here, which stated that the convict’s outdated age and sickness weighed in favor of a lesser sentence as a substitute of the loss of life penalty.
The trial court docket stated that though the killings of “two harmless individuals” within the case have been no much less an offense, it was not a “rarest of uncommon case” warranting the imposition of the loss of life penalty.
The case pertains to the killings of Jaswant Singh and his son Tarundeep Singh on November 1, 1984. The offense of homicide attracts a most punishment of the loss of life penalty and minimal of life imprisonment.
The trial court docket had stated that the case at hand was a part of the identical incident and may very well be seen as a continuation of the incident for which Kumar was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Delhi Excessive Courtroom on December 17, 2018.
He was then discovered responsible of getting prompted the loss of life of 5 individuals throughout an identical incident of rioting publish the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
The trial court docket due to this fact awarded life imprisonment to Kumar for being a part of the mob which set afire the home of the victims and “brutally killed” the 2 victims, in addition to looting their belongings.
It had additionally imposed a nice of round ₹2.4 lakh on Kumar.
In keeping with a report of the Nanavati Fee, constituted to probe the violence and its aftermath, there have been 587 FIRs filed in Delhi in relation to the riots that noticed killings of two,733 individuals. Of the full, about 240 FIRs have been closed by police as “untraced”, and 250 circumstances resulted in acquittal.
Of the 587 FIRs, solely 28 resulted in convictions, by which about 400 individuals have been convicted. About 50 individuals, together with the previous MP, have been convicted of homicide.
Kumar, an influential Congress chief and an MP on the time, was accused in a case over the killings of 5 individuals in Delhi’s Palam Colony on November 1 and a pair of, 1984. He was awarded life imprisonment by the Delhi Excessive Courtroom within the case, and his enchantment difficult the punishment is pending earlier than the Supreme Courtroom.
Revealed – October 17, 2025 12:20 pm IST