Supreme Court takes up Sajjan Kumar's plea against conviction, issues notice to CBI
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IBNS) :The Supreme Court Monday issued a notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the plea of former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar challenging a Delhi High Court order sentencing him to life term in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, media reports said.
The 73-year-old Kumar had surrendered before Karkardooma court on December 31 after the to court had rejected his plea to extend the time by a month. He was convicted and sentenced to life term for the “remainder of his natural life” after he was found guilty in a case pertaining to the killing of five Sikhs in southwest Delhi’s Raj Nagar on November 1-2, 1984, and the burning down of a gurdwara in Raj Nagar Part-II.
Metropolitan Magistrate Aditi Garg also rejected Kumar’s petition to be lodged in the high-security Tihar Jail but allowed his plea to let him be taken to the prison in a separate vehicle.
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