New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, who has been awarded a life imprisonment by the Delhi High Court in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, surrendered before the Karkardooma Court on Monday, as ANI reported. The court ordered that Kumar is sent to Mandoli jail in northeast Delhi.

Worth mention here on December 17, the Delhi High Court had overturned the release granted to Kumar by a trial court and awarded him a life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5 lakh in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.  It is noted that before this two convicts in the case- Mahender Yadav and Kishan Khokhar also surrendered at Karkardooma Court.

HS Phoolka, one of the petitioners in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case had stated that Kumar might try to make conflicts around the court to use as an excuse not to surrender and  urge for an extension. "I request 1984 Sikh genocide victims not to go to the court tomorrow. He has not got any relief from the Supreme Court. So, he has to surrender," Phoolka had stated in a statement on Sunday.

"He simply has to go to the court tomorrow and surrender. If he does not do that, then on January 1 the police will have to take him in custody and send him to Tihar Jail. This is a very big victory for the entire nation, as a mass murderer is going to be punished after years," Phoolka  was quoted by news agency as ANI  saying on Sunday.