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On December 4, 2021, the Rouse Avenue tribunal had framed charges against Sajjan Kumar for the offences of murder, rioting with a deadly weapon, unlawful assembly, effort to perpetrate culpable homicide among others.
A Delhi tribunal connected Wednesday convicted erstwhile Congress MP Sajjan Kumar successful a lawsuit related to the killings of 2 men successful Delhi’s Saraswati Vihar connected November 1, 1984, during the anti-Sikh riots. Arguments connected the quantum of condemnation successful this lawsuit volition instrumentality spot connected February 18.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which was probing this case, alleges that Kumar, who was past the Congress MP for Outer Delhi, led a mob that burnt live the 2 Sikh men—Jaswant Singh and his lad Tarundeep Singh—and destroyed and looted their houses acting connected his directions. The SIT was represented successful the tribunal by Additional Public Prosecutor Manish Rawat.
Kumar’s counsel Anil Kumar Sharma, Anuj Sharma and Apoorav Sharma argued that the complainants, the woman and the parent of the victims, had claimed to beryllium an eyewitness successful the lawsuit aft a agelong hold of 7 years and that their testimonies were truthful unreliable. The complainants were represented by elder advocator H S Phoolka and advocates Kamna Vohra and Gurbaksh Singh.
Widespread riots broke retired successful Delhi and different parts of the state aft past premier curate Indira Gandhi was murdered by 2 Sikh bodyguards successful retaliation for her bid for the Army to tempest the Golden Temple astatine Amritsar successful June 1984 to flush retired militants.
The FIR successful this lawsuit was registered successful 1991 connected the ground of an affidavit dated September 9, 1985, fixed by the complainant earlier the Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission, which was appointed successful 1985 by past premier curate Rajiv Gandhi “to inquire into the organised unit that took spot successful Delhi and besides the disturbances successful the Bokaro Tehsil and Chas Tehsil (both successful present-day Jharkhand) and astatine Kanpur, and to urge measures that whitethorn beryllium adopted for prevention of recurrence of specified incidents.”
On December 4, 2021, the Rouse Avenue Court of Special Judge M K Nagpal framed charges against the accused for the offences of murder, rioting with a deadly weapon, unlawful assembly and effort to perpetrate culpable homicide, among others.
Kumar is presently lodged successful Tihar Jail serving a beingness condemnation handed down by the Delhi High Court successful 2018 successful a lawsuit related to the sidesplitting of 5 Sikhs astatine Raj Nagar Part I successful Palam Colony connected November 1-2, 1984, and the burning down of a gurdwara successful Raj Nagar Part II.
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In September 2023, a Delhi tribunal acquitted Kumar successful a lawsuit related to the execution of 7 radical from the Sikh assemblage successful Sultanpuri during the 1984 riots. One lawsuit is pending against Kumar successful the Rouse Avenue court, 2 appeals against his acquittals are pending successful the precocious court, and an entreaty against his condemnation successful 1 lawsuit is pending successful the Supreme Court.
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