New Delhi, Jan 22: A Delhi court on Thursday acquitted former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in a case related to inciting violence in Janakpuri and Vikaspuri areas in the national capital during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh orally pronounced a brief order acquitting Kumar. A reasoned order is awaited. In August 2023, a court had charged Kumar with rioting and promoting enmity, while discharging him of murder and criminal conspiracy offences.
The first FIR concerned the violence in Janakpuri, where two men—Sohan Singh and his son-in-law Avtar Singh—were killed on November 1, 1984. The second FIR was in relation to Gurcharan Singh, who was allegedly set ablaze on November 2, 1984, in Vikaspuri.
Kumar, currently in jail, was awarded life imprisonment on February 25 last year by a trial court in a separate case regarding the killings of Jaswant Singh and his son Tarundeep Singh on November 1, 1984, in Saraswati Vihar. The court had said that though the killings of “two innocent persons” were serious offences, it was not a “rarest of rare case” warranting the death penalty.
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