The Supreme Court will hear on Wednesday the bail petition of former MP and former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, convicted for life in the Delhi Sikh riot case between lockdown and Corona infection. Also, last year, the Delhi High Court double bench overturned the lower court's verdict in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case and convicted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and sentenced him to life imprisonment. A fine of five lakh rupees was also imposed.
Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, who was a Lok Sabha MP from Delhi, was accused of murder, conspiracy, inciting riots and making inflammatory speeches. He contested the first Lok Sabha election of his life in the 1980s in Delhi politics. In the very first elections, the first Chief Minister of Delhi, Chaudhary Brahm Prakash, had created history by defeating him. Due to this, he came in the eyes of the high command. This victory in the Lok Sabha elections had brought him into the eyes of the then Congress leader Sanjay Gandhi.
Sajjan Kumar's stature in Delhi's politics can be gauged from the fact that he also fought the 1991 Lok Sabha elections and defeated Sahab Singh Verma of Bharatiya Janata Party from the outer Delhi Lok Sabha seat. Became MP Sahib Singh Verma is the same leader who later also became the Chief Minister of Delhi. Sajjan Kumar was given a ticket by the Congress party in 2004 and he also won the Lok Sabha election. After this, in 2004 and 2009, Congress did not give tickets to the Sikhs in view of their displeasure.
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