New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday acquitted former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a case related to violence during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the capital’s Janakpuri and Vikaspuri areas.
Special judge D.I.G. Vinay Singh had reserved the verdict on January 22 after final arguments in the case concluded in December last year.
The case stemmed from two FIRs registered by a special investigation team (SIT) in February 2015, based on complaints of violence during the riots in Janakpuri and Vikaspuri.
The first FIR pertained to violence in Janakpuri, where two persons — Sohan Singh and his son-in-law Avtar Singh — were killed on November 1, 1984. The second FIR related to the case of Gurcharan Singh, who was allegedly set on fire in Vikaspuri on November 2, 1984.
The court, after examining the evidence on record, acquitted Kumar in both matters, bringing to a close proceedings in the two cases registered nearly three decades after the riots.
