Life in jail over Gandhi assassination riots
(CNN)An Indian court has sentenced a former politician to life in prison for inciting anti-Sikh violence in riots after the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi which claimed thousands of lives.
Sajjan Kumar was a key leader of Gandhi’s then-ruling Congress Party when she was gunned down by two of her Sikh bodyguards. They killed her four months after she ordered Indian troops to storm the Golden Temple — one of Sikhism’s holiest shrines — to flush out separatists.
Thousands of Sikhs across the country were killed by mobs in the days after Gandhi’s assassination, including 2,733 in Delhi alone, the High Court of Delhi said Monday in its ruling overturning a lower court’s 2013 acquittal of Kumar.
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