{"id":307631,"date":"2018-12-31T09:47:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T09:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307631"},"modified":"2018-12-31T09:47:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T09:47:59","slug":"1984-anti-sikh-riots-convict-sajjan-kumar-surrenders-before-delhi-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/1984-anti-sikh-riots-convict-sajjan-kumar-surrenders-before-delhi-court\/","title":{"rendered":"1984 anti-Sikh riots convict Sajjan Kumar surrenders before Delhi court"},"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-307121 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sajjan-kumar-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"438\" 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: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar surrendered today before Delhi Court to undergo life imprisonment awarded to him in connection with 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On December 17, the Delhi High Court found Kumar guilty and sentenced him to jail &#8220;for the remainder of his natural life&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The High court had set a deadline of December 31 for Sajjan Kumar to surrender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On December 21, the High court had rejected Kumar\u2019s plea seeking extension till January 30 to surrender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Two other 1984 anti-Sikh riots convicts,\u00a0Kishan Khokhar\u00a0and\u00a0Mahender Yadav, surrendered before the court to serve a 10-year jail term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">They were convicted in the case in which Sajjan Kumar was sentenced to life for the \u201cremainder of his natural life\u201d by the Delhi High Court on December 17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The case in which they were convicted and sentenced relates to the killing of five Sikhs in Delhi in November 1984.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The riots broke out after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards in October 1984.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar surrendered today before Delhi Court to undergo life imprisonment awarded to him in connection with 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. On December 17, the Delhi High Court found Kumar guilty and sentenced him to jail &#8220;for the remainder of his natural life&#8221;. The High court had set a deadline of December [&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":[10358,3394,4432],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307631"}],"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=307631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307633,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307631\/revisions\/307633"}],"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=307631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}