A Delhi court today 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 78-year-old Kumar.
In August 2023, a court had charged the former Congress MP with rioting and promoting enmity, while discharging him of murder and criminal conspiracy offences.
In February 2015, a Special Investigation Team registered two FIRs against Kumar based on complaints of violence in the Janakpuri and Vikaspuri areas during the riots.
The first FIR was over the violence in Janakpuri, where two men, Sohan Singh and his son-in-law Avtar Singh were killed on 1st of November in 1984.
The second FIR was registered in the case of Gurcharan Singh, who was allegedly set ablaze on 2nd of November in 1984, in Vikaspuri.
Sajjan Kumar, who is presently in jail, was awarded life imprisonment on 25th of February last year by a trial court in a case regarding the killings of Jaswant Singh and his son Tarundeep Singh on 1st of November in 1984, in the Saraswati Vihar area.
