New Delhi, December 18 : Sajjan Kumar on Tuesday wrote to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to say that he was resigning from primary membership of the party.
Thirty-four years after the gruesome killings, the Delhi High Court had on Monday convicted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in an anti-Sikh riot case of 1984 and sentenced him to imprisonment for the remainder of his natural life, holding that the violence was a “crime against humanity” engineered by politicians with assistance from police.
Setting aside the acquittal of Sajjan Kumar, the court convicted him and five others saying that the “criminals” had escaped prosecution and punishment for over two decades.
Sajjan Kumar, 73, was asked to surrender by December 31 and directed not to leave Delhi.