A court here on Wednesday acquitted Sajjan Kumar in a case related to the murder of a Sikh man, Surjit Singh, during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, giving the former Congress MP the “benefit of the doubt”.
The court acquitted two other accused — Ved Prakash Pial and Brahmanand Gupta — stating that the prosecution had failed to prove the case of murder and rioting against them.
Kumar was accused of various offences, including IPC Section 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on the grounds of religion, race, etc.), 109 (abetment of any offence), 302 (murder), and 147 (rioting).
