Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar, 80, who was convicted in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, died on Thursday (August 20) at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital, information company PTI reported citing hospital sources.
The hospital has not but disclosed the reason for his dying.
Kumar was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Delhi excessive courtroom in December 2018 for his function in a case involving the killing of 5 Sikhs and the burning of a gurdwara in the course of the 1984 riots. He was lodged in Tihar Jail.
In February 2025, a Delhi courtroom additionally sentenced Kumar to life imprisonment in a separate case regarding the killing of two Sikh males in the course of the riots.
A 3-time Lok Sabha MP, Kumar represented the Outer Delhi constituency and was a outstanding Congress chief. He resigned from the get together following his conviction by the Delhi excessive courtroom in 2018.
Based on information company ANI, Kumar was dropped at the hospital in an unresponsive situation. Safdarjung Hospital authorities have but to challenge a press release on his dying.
For greater than three a long time, Kumar confronted a number of felony instances linked to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, with verdicts various from acquittals to convictions throughout totally different courts.
Earlier this 12 months, in January, a Delhi courtroom acquitted Kumar of fees of main a mob and inciting violence in the course of the riots within the Capital’s Janakpuri space. The courtroom cited inadequate proof and famous that witnesses had named Kumar as an accused solely after a spot of greater than three a long time.
Throughout his imprisonment, Kumar repeatedly sought bail and reduction on medical grounds.
Sajjan Kumar remained one of the vital outstanding former public representatives to face felony proceedings over the violence that adopted the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984.
