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SGPC says life term for Sajjan Kumar came 'too late,' calls it insufficien
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
"I think this punishment has come very late--it has been almost 43 years since the incident. After 40-43 years, justice is no longer justice; it becomes a mere formality. But better late than never. I thank the lawyers who supported us in this fight. However, I think life imprisonment is muc
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"Not the rarest of rare": Court rejects death penalty plea, awards two lif
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
The court considered a report from jail authorities citing Kumar's good conduct and noted that he is suffering from multiple ailments.
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"Jagdish Tytler and Kamal Nath are next": Delhi Minister Manjinder Singh S
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
"Sajjan Kumar has been awarded life imprisonment. I thank Prime Minister Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for constituting the SIT and reopening the case. These cases were closed for 35 years, and people like Sajjan Kumar, Jagdish Tytler, and Kamal Nath continued to roam freely as C
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"We are upset that someone like Sajjan Kumar has not been given death pena
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Speaking to the media, Kahlon said that justice would have prevailed even if Kumar was given life imprisonment.
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Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar sentenced to life in case related to killi
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Delhi Court on Tuesday awarded life sentence to the accused Sajjan Kumar in a case related to killing the father-son duo in the Saraswati Vihar area during the 1984 Anti Sikh riots.
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Sikh Community calls for death penalty for Sajjan Kumar in 1984 riots case
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Ahead of the trial court's pronouncement of the sentence for Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, members of the Sikh community led by Sikh leader Gurlad Singh organized a protest in front of the court on Tuesday.
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Court reserves order on sentence to be awarded to Sajjan Kumar
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar was Convicted on February 12 in a Saraswati vihar case of killing of the father Son duo on November 1, 1984.
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1984 Anti-Sikh riots: Relatives of victims demand death penalty for former
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Sajjan Kumar was convicted for his involvement in the brutal killings of a father-son duo, Jaswant Singh and Tarundeep Singh, in Delhi's Saraswati Vihar area on November 1, 1984.
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1984 anti-sikh riots: Prosecution seeks death penalty for former MP Sajjan
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Kumar was convicted in a case of killing of father son duo, Jaswant Singh and Tarundeep Singh on 1 November 1984 in Saraswati Vihar area.
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1984 Anti-Sikh Riots Cases: SC directs Centre, Delhi to file SLPs in six a
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Union and the Delhi government to file Statutory Leave Petitions (SLPs) in connection with six cases in which various accused persons of the 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots had been granted acquittals.
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"Grateful to the court": Advocate HS Phoolka after Sajjan Kumar's convicti
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
"We are grateful to the court, the public prosecutor Manish Rawat and the IO Jagdish Kumar who worked very hard on this... On the 18th of February, the court will pronounce the sentence..." Advocate Phoolka told reporters.
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Nehru-Gandhi family nurtured, promoted accused of 84 riots: Sachdeva after
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Delhi BJP chief Virendraa Sachdeva on Wednesday took a dig at the Nehru-Gandhi family, alleging that they had nurtured and promoted those accused in the 1984 riots after Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi convicted former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar for his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
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