New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today
upheld the life sentence of three persons for burning an auto
driver to death during 1984 anti-Sikh riot.
In a separate case, the court today acquitted a woman
in another anti-Sikh riot 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 to death.
Following the assassination of the then Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi by her Sikh body guards here on October 31,1984,
the riot 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.
PTI
