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1984 anti-Sikh riots: High court upholds life term of three

The Delhi High Court upheld the life sentence of three persons for burning an auto driver to death during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

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The Delhi High Court today upheld the life sentence of three persons for burning an auto driver to death during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

In a separate case, the court today acquitted a woman in another anti-Sikh riots case with a remark that she was present in the mob, but did not kill any Sikh during the riot.

A Division Bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Ajit Bharihoke dismissed an appeal filed by Om Prakash, Ved Prakash and Karamat, and concurred with the trial court's findings against them in 1996.

The court accepted the testimony of Vidyawati, wife of deceased Thakur Singh that the convicts were in a mob which had attacked her husband and burnt him to death.

According to the prosecution, a mob of 160 people in Trilokpuri area under Kalyanpuri police station had attacked Thakur Singh who, along with the family members, took shelter in the house of one Laxman Das.

However, the mob first set his three-wheeler on fire, and later dragged him out of the house and burnt him to death.

Following the assassination of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh body guards here on October 31,1984, the riots had broken out targeting Sikhs in Delhi and other places of the country.

Trilokpuri and Kalyanpuri besides Tilak Nagar were worst hit by the riots areas in the national capital Delhi.

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