{"id":584950,"date":"2010-05-28T16:01:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T20:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2010\/05\/india-court-charges-ex-mp-in-connection-with-anti-sikh-riots.php"},"modified":"2010-05-28T16:01:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T20:01:29","slug":"india-court-charges-ex-mp-in-connection-with-anti-sikh-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/584950","title":{"rendered":"India court charges ex-MP in connection with anti-Sikh riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"left\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jurist.law.pitt.edu\/topstoryphoto\/frontindiaflag.jpg\" alt=\"Photo source or description\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"4\"><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jurist.law.pitt.edu\/images\/s.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"5\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[JURIST] An Indian court on Friday charged <a href=\"http:\/\/parliamentofindia.nic.in\/ls\/lok10\/mp665.htm\">Sajjan Kumar<\/a> [official profile], a former member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliamentofindia.nic.in\/\">Parliament of India<\/a> in the ruling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.congress.org.in\/\">Congress Party<\/a> [official websites], in connection with the <a href=\"http:\/\/info.indiatimes.com\/1984\/index.html\">1984 anti-Sikh riots<\/a> [TOI backgrounder]. Additional Sessions Judge Sunita Gupta of the <a href=\"http:\/\/delhicourts.nic.in\/\">Northeast District of Delhi<\/a> [official website] <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/Delhi-Court-frames-charges-against-Sajjan-and-others\/articleshow\/5985194.cms\">charged<\/a> [TOI report] Kumar and five others with conspiracy, murder, dacoity, and promoting enmity between communities under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/9705208\/Indian-Penal-Code-Full-text-with-amendments-comments-and-important-citations\">Indian Penal Code<\/a> [text]. The court found sufficient evidence to presume that a conspiracy and speeches made by Kumar incited the riots. The court is scheduled to begin hearing witnesses July 1. Kumar and his co-defendants pleaded not guilty, and, if convicted, they could face the death penalty. <\/p>\n<p>The case was <a href=\"http:\/\/beta.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/article364713.ece\">transferred<\/a> [PTI report] from a special judge in the <a href=\"http:\/\/cbi.nic.in\/\">Central Bureau of Investigation<\/a> [official website] to the Delhi court in April. The riots were precipitated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/onthisday\/hi\/witness\/october\/31\/newsid_3961000\/3961851.stm\">assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi<\/a> in 1984 by two of her Sikh bodyguards in retaliation for <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/onthisday\/hi\/dates\/stories\/june\/6\/newsid_2499000\/2499341.stm\">Operation Blue Star<\/a> [BBC backgrounders], a military campaign against Sikh militants. The riots spanned three days in October and November 1984, mostly affecting communities in Delhi, and leaving thousands of Sikhs dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] An Indian court on Friday charged Sajjan Kumar [official profile], a former member of the Parliament of India in the ruling Congress Party [official websites], in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots [TOI backgrounder]. Additional Sessions Judge Sunita Gupta of the Northeast District of Delhi [official website] charged [TOI report] Kumar and five others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6950,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6950"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}