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.
Riot Recall |
 The anti-Sikh riots took place after the assassination of Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984 in Delhi. Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh guards who were acting in retaliation to the Operation Bluestar at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. |
| Over the next four days nearly 3,000 Sikhs were massacred in systematic riots allegedly planned and led by Congress activists and sympathisers. |
| The NDA government in 2000 established the Nanavati Commission, headed by Justice G T Nanavati, retired Judge of the Supreme Court of India, to investigate the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots. |
| The commission claimed evidence against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar and H K L Bhagat for instigating the mobs to violence. |
| There was widespread protest against the report as it did not mention clearly the role of Tytler and other Congressmen in the riots. It finally led to the resignation of Jagdish Tytler from the Union Cabinet. |
| The Commission also held the then Delhi police commissioner S C Tandon directly responsible for the riots. |
(With agency inputs)
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