Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi : The Delhi High Court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of around 80 people and awarded five year jail term in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
The high court dismissed their appeals against the conviction by a trial court for burning houses and curfew violations during the riots.
Justice R K Gauba directed all the convicts to surrender within four weeks.
The convicts had challenged the August 27, 1996, judgement of a Sessions Court, which had convicted 88 out of the 107 people arrested on November 2, 1984 for rioting, burning houses and curfew violation in Trilokpuri area of East Delhi.
This is the third sentencing in the riots case. The first sentencing came in 1996—Kakardooma district court found a man called Kishori Lal guilty in the case.
Some 95 bodies were recovered in Trilokpuri during the anti-Sikh riots.
