New Delhi: It was justice delayed, but certainly not denied. A Delhi Court on Monday convicted three men for lynching three members of a family in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
Harparsad Bhardwaj, R P Tiwari and Jagdish Giri attacked the house of the complainant – a Delhi police constable – in the wake of the riots that followed the assassination of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi.
Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri held three guilty of killing three members of Niranjan Singh and charged them under various sections of IPC, including 147 (rioting) and 302 (murder).
However, PTI reports that the ASJ acquitted two accused - Kamlesh and Suraj Giri – due to lack of evidence.
The court would hear the arguments on quantum of sentence on March 28.
The accused allegedly led a mob on November 1-2, 1984 and attacked the house of complainant Harminder Kaur located in an East Delhi locality.
According to the prosecution, Niranjan Singh - a head constable with Delhi Police - was on duty at Shahdara Railway Station on November 1, 1984 when he was lynched by a violent mob led by the accused.
The accused chased him down before burning him alive in front of his house at Mansarovar Park.
Her 17-year-old son Gurpal Singh and son-in-law Mahender Singh were killed the next day 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.
Former Union Minster H K L Bhagat was also named as one of the accused in the case but was later discharged as the evidence against him was found to be insufficient.
(With PTI inputs)
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