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Life term for 3 in anti-Sikh riots case
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: A trial court here on Saturday sentenced three accused to life imprisonment, holding them guilty of attempt to murder three members of a Sikh family during the anti-Sikh riots at Shastri Nagar in North Delhi in 1984.
Riots broke out in the Capital in the wake of the assassination of the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.
Additional Sessions Judge Surinder Singh Rathi held Mangal Sen alias Billa, Brij Mohan Verma and Bhagat Singh guilty of attempt to murder, rioting and dacoity.
The court held them guilty on August 22.
While sentencing the three accused, the Judge passed severe strictures on the Delhi police and the State machinery for their role during the riots.
“Even though we boast of being the world’s largest democracy and New Delhi being its national Capital, the sheer mention of the incidents of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in general and the role played by the Delhi police and State machinery in particular make our heads hang in shame in the eyes of the world polity,” the judge observed.
“It is evident that our society is becoming more and more intolerant towards one another, and this dangerous trend is acquiring dangerous proportions,” the judge said.
The Judge was particularly disturbed by the fact that the convicts who had looted the victims and burnt their house were not strangers but were next door neighbours.
Joginder Singh and his sons, Jagmohan Singh and Gurvinder Singh, were seriously injured while their house was burnt down by a mob led by the three accused on November 1, 1984.
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