{"id":75385,"date":"2025-02-25T08:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=75385"},"modified":"2025-02-25T08:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:40:02","slug":"sajjan-kumar-gets-life-term-in-1984-riots-case-court-rejects-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=75385","title":{"rendered":"Sajjan Kumar Gets Life Term In 1984 Riots Case, Court Rejects Death Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Delhi court on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in a murder case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.<\/p>\n

Special judge Kaveri Baweja pronounced the judgement for the alleged killing of Jaswant Singh and his son Tarundeep Singh on November 1, 1984.<\/p>\n

The complainant, wife of Jaswant, and the prosecution had sought death penalty for Kumar.<\/p>\n

The offence of murder carried a maximum punishment of death penalty, while the minimum sentence was life imprisonment.<\/p>\n

The court on February 12 convicted Kumar for the offence and sought a report from Tihar Central Jail on his psychiatric and psychological evaluation in view of a Supreme Court order asking for such a report in cases attracting capital punishment.<\/p>\n

Kumar is currently lodged in Tihar jail.<\/p>\n

Though Punjabi Bagh Police Station registered the case, a special investigation team took over the investigation much later.<\/p>\n

The prosecution alleged a huge mob, armed with deadly weapons, resorted to large-scale looting, arson and destruction of properties of Sikhs to avenge the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.<\/p>\n

The mob attacked the house of the complainant, wife of Jaswant, killing the men aside from looting articles and setting their house ablaze, the prosecution claimed.<\/p>\n

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