{"id":306878,"date":"2018-12-11T11:07:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T11:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306878"},"modified":"2018-12-11T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T11:07:49","slug":"1984-anti-sikh-riots-case-delhi-hc-to-hear-convicts-plea-challenging-death-sentence-on-dec-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/1984-anti-sikh-riots-case-delhi-hc-to-hear-convicts-plea-challenging-death-sentence-on-dec-19\/","title":{"rendered":"1984 anti-Sikh riots case: Delhi HC to hear convict\u2019s plea challenging death sentence on Dec 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305853 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181120-170211__01-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181120-170211__01-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181120-170211__01-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181120-170211__01-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181120-170211__01-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181120-170211__01-696x481.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181120-170211__01.jpg 839w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181120-170211__01-608x420.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Delhi High Court on December 11 sought a response by the police on a plea by one of the convicts, Yashpal Singh, challenging the death sentence awarded to him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. The court listed the matter for further hearing on December 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Convict Singh has filed the appeal against his conviction and sentence by a trial court. He has also filed a bail plea in the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The HC bench comprising Justices Siddharth Mridul and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal also issued a notice to Singh on the reference to confirm his death sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The HC bench issued production warrant for Singh, who is currently lodged in the Tihar Jail since his conviction and was also fined with Rs 35 lakh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The trial court had also awarded life term to another accused Naresh Sherawat in the case over the killing of two men in New Delhi during the 1984 riots.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court on December 11 sought a response by the police on a plea by one of the convicts, Yashpal Singh, challenging the death sentence awarded to him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. The court listed the matter for further hearing on December 19. Convict Singh has filed the appeal against his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36,2009,2014],"tags":[10222,1594,10225,10224,10223,6477,10221],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306879,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306878\/revisions\/306879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}