In August this year, Rahul Gandhi, speaking before an audience of parliamentarians and local leaders in London, distanced his family and the Congress party from the carnage that followed his grandmother Indira Gandhi’s assassination in October 1984.
It’s come back to haunt the Congress now, with the December 17 conviction of senior party leader and Delhi strongman Sajjan Kumar and five others for the killing of five Sikhs in November 1984.
It’s taken 34 long years to bring Sajjan Kumar—the first Congress leader to be convicted—to justice. Reversing his acquittal by the trial court in 2013, the Delhi High Court bench consisting of Justices S. Muralidhar and Vinod Goel, acknowledged for the first time that many of the perpetrators had managed to escape prosecution and punishment till now because of political backing. The investigation only picked up in 2005 after it was handed over to the CBI on the recommendation of the Justice Nanavati Commission.
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