{"id":54986,"date":"2018-12-21T16:55:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T11:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=54986"},"modified":"2018-12-21T16:55:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T11:25:03","slug":"delhi-hc-rejects-sajjan-kumars-plea-for-extension-of-time-to-surrender-in-1984-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/delhi-hc-rejects-sajjan-kumars-plea-for-extension-of-time-to-surrender-in-1984-case","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC rejects Sajjan Kumar&#8217;s plea for extension of time to surrender in 1984 case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"419\" data-attachment-id=\"54975\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/1984-anti-sikh-riots-sajjan-kumar-asks-for-more-30-days-to-surrender\/5c178e501d00002c0231af97\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/5c178e501d00002c0231af97.jpeg?fit=630%2C419&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"630,419\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Mail Today&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;NEW DELHI, INDIA \\u009d MAY 18: Congress leader Sajjan Kumar at Karkardooma court on Tuesday in New Delhi. 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In his plea, he had said &#8220;I need time to settle my children and grandchildren. I have six grandchildren. The life sentence came all of a sudden.&#8221; Kumar was acquitted by a special CBI court on April 30, 2013, while it had held five other accused guilty of the crime.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The Delhi high court had on December17 overturned the lower court decision and said, &#8220;the trial court ignored evidence of the conspiracy.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><br>\n<br>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Friday&nbsp;dismissed former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar\u2019s plea which sought more time for him to surrender&nbsp;in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.The former Congress leader was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by the court in a case pertaining to killing five members of a famil in the Delhi Cantonment area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[43832,31987],"class_list":["post-54986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-1984-case","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Delhi HC rejects Sajjan Kumar&#039;s plea for extension of time to surrender in 1984 case - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Friday&nbsp;dismissed former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar\u2019s plea which sought more time for him to surrender&nbsp;in - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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