{"id":308405,"date":"2019-01-22T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T08:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308405"},"modified":"2019-01-22T08:39:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T08:39:56","slug":"delhi-court-issues-production-warrant-against-1984-anti-sikh-riot-convict-sajjan-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-court-issues-production-warrant-against-1984-anti-sikh-riot-convict-sajjan-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi court issues production warrant against 1984 anti-Sikh riot convict Sajjan Kumar"},"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-307368 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sajjan-kumar-1-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sajjan-kumar-1-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sajjan-kumar-1.jpg 363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/>A Delhi court on Tuesday issued production warrant against former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. The court will hear the matter on January 28.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A production warrant against Sajjan Kumar was issued by District Judge Poonam A Bamba after Tihar Jail authorities, where he is lodged after conviction in another case related to the riots, could not produce him today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the case before the trial court, Sajjan Kumar along with two others, Brahmanand Gupta and Ved Prakash are facing trial\u00a0on charges of murder and rioting pertaining to the killing of Surjit Singh in Sultanpuri.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kumar was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by the court in a case pertaining to killing of five Sikh members of a family during 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 riots had erupted after the assassination of former prime minister\u00a0Indira Gandhi\u00a0by her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi court on Tuesday issued production warrant against former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. The court will hear the matter on January 28. A production warrant against Sajjan Kumar was issued by District Judge Poonam A Bamba after Tihar Jail authorities, where he is lodged after conviction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":307368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[4432],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308405"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308407,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308405\/revisions\/308407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}