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NEW DELHI: A Delhi tribunal connected Thrusday acquitted erstwhile Congress person Sajjan Kumar successful a lawsuit related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots successful Janakpuri and Vikaspuri, successful which 2 radical were killed. The Rouse Avenue Court held that the prosecution had failed to found Kumar’s relation successful the violence. During the trial, Kumar maintained that helium was innocent, denied immoderate engagement successful the incident, and said determination was nary grounds linking him to the case.Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh orally pronounced a little bid acquitting Kumar. In August 2023, a tribunal had charged Kumar with rioting and promoting enmity, portion discharging him of execution and transgression conspiracy offences.In February 2015, a peculiar probe squad registered 2 FIRs against Kumar based connected complaints of unit successful the Janakpuri and Vikaspuri areas during the riots.The archetypal FIR was implicit the unit successful Janakpuri, wherever 2 men -- Sohan Singh and his son-in-law Avtar Singh -- were killed connected November 1, 1984.The 2nd FIR was registered successful the lawsuit of Gurcharan Singh, who was allegedly acceptable ablaze connected November 2, 1984, successful Vikaspuri.
Kumar, who is presently successful jail, was awarded beingness imprisonment connected February 25 past twelvemonth by a proceedings tribunal successful a lawsuit regarding the killings of Jaswant Singh and his lad Tarundeep Singh connected November 1, 1984, successful the Saraswati Vihar area.It had said that though the killings of "two guiltless persons" successful the lawsuit were nary little an offence, it was not a "rarest of uncommon case" warranting the imposition of the decease penalty.The proceedings tribunal had besides said that the lawsuit astatine manus was portion of the aforesaid incidental and could beryllium seen arsenic a continuity of the incidental for which Kumar was sentenced to beingness imprisonment by the Delhi High Court connected December 17, 2018.The precocious tribunal had recovered him blameworthy of having caused the decease of 5 radical during a akin incidental of rioting successful the Palam Colony area, station the assassination of erstwhile Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.According to a study of the Nanavati Commission -- constituted to probe the unit and its aftermath -- determination were 587 FIRs filed successful Delhi successful narration to the riots that saw killings of 2,733 people. Of the total, astir 240 FIRs were closed by constabulary arsenic "untraced", and 250 cases resulted successful acquittal.Of the 587 FIRs, lone 28 resulted successful convictions, successful which astir 400 radical were convicted. About 50 people, including the erstwhile MP, were convicted of murder.Kumar, an influential Congress person and an MP astatine the time, was accused successful a lawsuit related to the sidesplitting of 5 radical successful Delhi's Palam Colony connected November 1 and 2, 1984.He was awarded beingness imprisonment by the Delhi High Court successful the case, and his entreaty challenging the punishment is pending earlier the Supreme Court.
