Court acquits three accused in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots

New Delhi, Sep 30 (PTI) A Delhi court Wednesday acquitted
three persons accused of leading a mob that lynched a man
during 1984 anti-Sikh riots here.

Additional Sessions Judge Pinki acquitted Jagdish Singh,
Sajjan Singh and Ishwar Singh, who were charged with leading a
mob which allegedly killed Gurbakshish Singh outside his
residence in Paschim Vihar locality on November one, 1984,
during the riots that followed the assassination of the then
prime minister Indira Gandhi.

The police had registered an FIR (First Information
Report) almost eight years after the incident under various
sections of IPC dealing with rioting, looting, arson and
murder.

Father of the victim, Swaran Singh Bhatia, who was forced
to leave the country after the incident, had come from Canada
last year to depose in the case.

Bhatia had testified that the mob, which had besieged his
house, was not stopped by the policemen who remained mute
spectators during the entire episode. PTI SJK
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