New Delhi: A Delhi Court on Monday convicted three men for lynching three members of a family in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Rajender Kumar Shastri held three accused - Harparsad Bhardwaj, R P Tiwari and Jagdish Giri - guilty of killing three members of a Sikh family including a Delhi Police head constable.
The accused had led a mob on November one and two and attacked the house of complainant Harminder Kaur in 1984 in an East Delhi locality after anti-Sikh riots broke out.
The accused were convicted under various sections of IPC, including 147 (rioting) and 302 (murder).
The ASJ, however, acquitted a woman accused Kamlesh and Suraj Giri of the charges due to lack of evidence. The court would hear the arguments on quantum of sentence on March 28.
According to the prosecution, Kaur's husband Niranjan Singh, a head constable with the Delhi Police, who was on duty at Shahdara Railway Station on November one, 1984, was lynched and set ablaze by a violent mob led by the accused.
The FIR in the case was lodged in 1996 when Kaur, who survived the riot, filed an affidavit with the Jain and Banerjee Committee constituted to look into the anti-Sikh riot cases.
Nearly 3,000 Sikhs were massacred in systematic riots, which started after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh security guards on October 31, 1984. It’s alleged that the riots were planned and led by Congress activists.
(With agency inputs)
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