{"id":307120,"date":"2018-12-17T05:33:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307120"},"modified":"2018-12-17T05:33:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T05:33:11","slug":"congress-leader-sajjan-kumar-convicted-in-1984-anti-sikh-riots-sentenced-to-life-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-leader-sajjan-kumar-convicted-in-1984-anti-sikh-riots-sentenced-to-life-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress leader Sajjan Kumar convicted in 1984 anti-Sikh riots, sentenced to life term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-leader-sajjan-kumar-convicted-in-1984-anti-sikh-riots-sentenced-to-life-term\/sajjan-kumar\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307121\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307121 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sajjan-kumar-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sajjan-kumar-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sajjan-kumar-453x420.jpg 453w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sajjan-kumar.jpg 543w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a>Delhi High Court on Monday convicted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sajjan Kumar has been sentenced to life term in the case related to the killing of five Sikhs- Kehar Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Raghuvender Singh, Narender Pal Singh and Kuldeep Singh, who were members of the same family in the Delhi Cantonment&#8217;s Raj Nagar area following the assassination of Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The High Court had earlier reserved its order on the CBI\u2019s plea that challenged the trial&#8217;s court judgment where Sajjan Kumar was acquitted and five others were convicted in the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel delivered the verdict in the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sajjan Kumar must surrender before December 31, the court said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi High Court on Monday convicted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot case. Sajjan Kumar has been sentenced to life term in the case related to the killing of five Sikhs- Kehar Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Raghuvender Singh, Narender Pal Singh and Kuldeep Singh, who were members of the same family in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9957,1594,4432],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307120"}],"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=307120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307123,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307120\/revisions\/307123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}