{"id":308045,"date":"2019-01-14T07:37:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T07:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308045"},"modified":"2019-01-14T07:37:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T07:37:43","slug":"supreme-court-issues-notice-to-cbi-on-sajjan-kumars-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/supreme-court-issues-notice-to-cbi-on-sajjan-kumars-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court issues notice to CBI on Sajjan Kumar&#8217;s plea"},"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=\"522\" height=\"484\" 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: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar\u2019s appeal against his conviction in 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;\">Sajjan Kumar in his appeal challenged the Delhi High Court verdict sentencing him to life imprisonment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi sought a response from the CBI on Kumar&#8217;s plea seeking suspension of the sentence while challenging his conviction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sajjan Kumar surrendered on December 31, 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;\">The Delhi High Court on December 17 found Kumar guilty and sentenced him to jail \u201cfor the remainder of his natural life\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar\u2019s appeal against his conviction in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. Sajjan Kumar in his appeal challenged the Delhi High Court verdict sentencing him to life imprisonment. The bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi sought a [&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":[435,4432,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308045"}],"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=308045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308046,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308045\/revisions\/308046"}],"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=308045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}