• 

  Sajjan Kumar, former Congress MP, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case

  India | February 25, 2025 14:18 IST

  Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar has been sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The Delhi court ruled on his involvement in the Saraswati Vihar killings, marking his second life sentence.

• 

  1984 anti-Sikh riots: Prosecution seeks death penalty for Sajjan Kumar, court hearing on February 21

  India | February 18, 2025 14:46 IST

  The prosecution has sought the death penalty for ex-Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. The court will hear arguments on sentencing on February 21.

• 

  'Kill Sikhs...': Congress leader Jagdish Tytler instigated crowd, states CBI report

  India | August 06, 2023 6:14 IST

  1984 anti-sikh riots: Earlier in the week, a sessions court had granted anticipatory bail to Tytler in the case on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh and surety of the like amount.

• 

  Rahul again makes blunder about Dalits in 1980s- forgets it was his grandmother, Indira's era

  India | May 31, 2023 21:24 IST

  Like earlier, this time too, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has forgotten the era that he was referring to was led by his grandmother, Indira Gandhi, and his father, Rajiv Gandhi.

• 

  1984 anti-Sikh riots case: CBI names Jagdish Tytler in fresh chargesheet

  Delhi | May 20, 2023 14:55 IST

  Jagdish Tytler's voice samples were collected by the investigation agency last month in connection with the 1984 violence in the Pul Bangash area of the national capital, which resulted in the deaths of three people.

• 

  California Assembly urges US to recognise 1984 anti-Sikh violence as genocide

  World | April 12, 2023 11:26 IST

  The resolution was introduced by Assembly Member Jasmeet Kaur Bains, the first-ever elected Sikh member of the state assembly.

• 

  1984 anti-Sikh riots: Congress leader Jagdish Tytler gives voice sample to CBI | Know about the case

  India | April 11, 2023 16:20 IST

  1984 anti-Sikh riots: Tytler is accused of leading a mob in the 1984 Pul Bangash case in which three Sikhs were killed.

• 

  SC rejects 1984 riots convict Sajjan Kumar's plea seeking interim bail on health ground

  India | September 04, 2020 13:40 IST

  The Supreme Court Friday dismissed the plea of former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, who is serving life imprisonment in an 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, seeking interim bail on health grounds. “Sorry. We are not inclined. Dismissed,” a bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said.

• 

  Diljit Dosanjh to star in Ali Abbas Zafar's next film about 1984 riots?

  Celebrities | July 14, 2020 9:07 IST

  Director Ali Abbas Zafar, known for films like Sultan, Tiger Zinda Hai, Bharat, etc is ready with the script of another project based on 1984 riots which might have Punjabi singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh playing the lead role. Interestingly, he has been a part of Punjabi film, Punjab 1984, directed by Anurag Singh and had the same subject.

• 

  1984 anti-Sikh riots: Action will be taken against cops as per SIT report, Govt tells Supreme Court

  India | January 15, 2020 12:40 IST

  Earlier, in March last year, the top court had granted two more months to the SIT to complete its probe into 1986 anti-Sikh riot cases after the SIT informed it that more than 50 per cent of work was done and it wanted two more months to complete the investigation.

• 

  1984 Sikh Genocide Memorial in US removed after India protests

  World | October 20, 2019 16:26 IST

  The memorial, that featured a prominent photo of Khalistani leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, accused the Indian government of genocide.

Advertisement
• 

  1984 riots SIT yet to record statement of witnesses

  India | September 20, 2019 13:57 IST

  A delegation of All-India Riot Victims Relief Committee (AIRVRC), including its two Supreme Court lawyers Gurbaksh Singh Dev and Prasoon Kumar, on Thursday confronted SIT (retired additional director prosecution) member Yogeshwar Krishna Srivastava, who denied the charge.

• 

  SIT reopens seven 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases; Kamal Nath may be in trouble

  India | September 09, 2019 21:10 IST

  A Special Investigation Team (SIT), set up by the Union Home Ministry, has decided to reopen seven anti-Sikh riot cases, where the accused were either acquitted or the trial closed, according to an official notification.

• 

  1984 riots survivors say they still await justice

  India | May 18, 2019 16:57 IST

  The survivors of the riots in the CRPF colony of Ludhiana claim that successive Congress governments delayed justice to the affected families.

• 

  1984 tragedy caused tremendous pain, Sam Pitroda must apologise: Rahul Gandhi

  May 11, 2019 7:47 IST

  Earlier, Pitroda had apologised for his recent remarks about 1984 anti-Sikh riots and said that his "misrepresented" remarks were intended just to be about "moving on".

• 

  BJP twisting my words to distort facts, hide their failures: Sam Pitroda on comment over 1984 anti-Sikh riots

  May 10, 2019 11:41 IST

  The BJP had demanded an apology from Sam Pitroda on Thursday, for his comments on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. 

• 

  Instructions to kill Sikhs in 1984 came from PMO: BJP

  Politics | May 09, 2019 14:58 IST

  "It's on record in the Nanavati Commission that probed the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the biggest genocide in which the government killed its own citizens, that instructions to kill came directly from then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's office," the Bharatiya Janata Party's official Twitter handle posted.

• 

  Supreme Court asks CBI to apprise it of status of Sajjan Kumar's ongoing trial in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case

  India | April 08, 2019 13:24 IST

  The case in which Kumar was convicted and sentenced relates to the killing of five Sikhs in Delhi Cantonment's Raj Nagar Part-I area of southwest Delhi on November 1 and 2, 1984.

• 

  UP govt constitutes SIT to probe 1984 Kanpur riots

  Politics | February 06, 2019 9:13 IST

  In 1984 riots in Kanpur, at least 125 people were killed.

• 

  1984 anti-Sikh riots: Supreme Court to hear Sajjan Kumar's appeal on January 14

  India | January 10, 2019 21:40 IST

  The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on January 14 the appeal filed by former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar challenging the Delhi High Court verdict convicting and sentencing him to life term in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.