{"id":307362,"date":"2018-12-21T04:50:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T04:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307362"},"modified":"2018-12-21T04:50:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T04:50:26","slug":"1984-anti-sikh-riots-former-congress-leader-sajjan-kumar-moves-hc-seeking-time-till-jan-31-to-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/1984-anti-sikh-riots-former-congress-leader-sajjan-kumar-moves-hc-seeking-time-till-jan-31-to-surrender\/","title":{"rendered":"1984 anti-Sikh riots: Former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar moves HC seeking time till Jan 31 to surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-307121 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sajjan-kumar-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"306\" 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: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar on Thursday approached the Delhi High Court seeking time till January 31, 2019 to surrender as against December 31, 2018 in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which he was recently sentenced to life imprisonment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kumar 73, who was directed by the high court on Monday to surrender before authorities by December 31, sought more time to \u201csettle property matters\u201d within his family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Advocate Anil Sharma, representing Sajjan Kumar said that they need some more time to file appeal before the Supreme Court challenging the high court&#8217;s verdict and Kumar has to settle his family matters relating to his children and property.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The plea is likely to come up for hearing on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar on Thursday approached the Delhi High Court seeking time till January 31, 2019 to surrender as against December 31, 2018 in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which he was recently sentenced to life imprisonment. Kumar 73, who was directed by the high court on Monday to surrender [&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":[10358,110,4432],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307362"}],"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=307362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307363,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307362\/revisions\/307363"}],"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=307362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}