Sajjan Kumar  

The Supreme Court has rejected bail to Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots case   
 

Union home ministry has consented to the reopening of as many as 7 cases relate to the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath is surely in trouble for his alleged role in provoking mobs

'The Sikh community can never forgive Rajiv Gandhi for the murder 10,000 Sikhs. Not only did Gandhi order the genocide but he also rewarded the riot accused', the letter reads

Senior JD(S) leader Basavaraj Horatti has criticised the coalition government in Karnataka. Major Border Action Team (BAT) action has been foiled along the Line of Control (LoC) in Naugam sector of Jammu and Kashmir.

Former Congress politician Sajjan Kumar tried to move the court by invoking the 'humanitarian' ground of fending for his children and grandchildren, but even that did not impress the Delhi high court

Amit Shah said, “Their workers and leaders went on rampage raising provocative slogans, raping women and murdering men in cold blood. Yet no one was even punished despite multiple commissions and several eyewitnesses”
 

'There was an abject failure by the police to investigate the violence which broke out in the aftermath of the assassination of the then Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi is apparent from the several circumstances highlighted herein above,' the high court said quoting multiple lapses

The two-judge bench of the Delhi high court lauded the witnesses for having stood their ground. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), departing from the negative media glare that it received in recent times, got a pat on the back.

After Congress leader Sajjan Kumar was sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom, MyNation looks back at some harrowing incidents from the days of the riots

The court also upheld the life imprisonment sentences of ex-Congress councillor Balwan Khokhar, retired Navy officer Captain Bhagmal and Girdhari Lal. The sentences of former MLA Mahendra Yadav and Kishan Khokhar have been increased from three to 10 years of imprisonment.
 

Here is a list of prominent politicians, all from the Congress, accused of leading or inciting mobs to massacre Sikhs following the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the hands of her guards who happened to be Sikhs