New Delhi: The Delhi Patiala House Court, on Tuesday, 20 November, pronounce death sentence to one of the two convicts found guilty of killing two Sikh men during the 1984 Genocide. The other convict will spend life in prison, the court said today.
This is the first sentencing in the case after the Special Investigation Team (SIT) took over the probe.
Naresh Sehrawat and Yashpal Singh were convicted of killing Hardev Singh and Avtar Singh in south Delhi’s Mahipalpur during the riots.
Senior advocate HS Phoolka who had appeared for the victims, hailed the decision as a “Great Victory.”
The Special Investigation Team formed in 2015 probing the 60 cases it had reopened out of the total 293, succeeded in getting conviction in the first case last week.
It had filed “untraced report” in 52 cases and of the eight cases being investigated, charge-sheets have been filed in five while the rest, in which senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar is an accused, are pending investigation.
The records say that over 2,800 Sikhs were killed across India after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination by a Sikh bodyguard.