Sajjan Kumar Sent to Mandoli Jail
Posted: 31 Dec 2018 04:04 AM PSTNEW DELHI, India—The former Congress parliamentarian Sajjan Kumar, who has been held guilty of massacring innocent Sikhs during the 1984 Sikh genocide, today surrendered before the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate Aditi Garg. The Court has sent him to Mandoli jail situated in the North-East of India’s national capital New Delhi.
It is learnt that Sajjan Kumar placed a demand before the Court to send him to Tihar Jail citing security reasons but the Court didn’t accept his demand. However, the Court allowed his plea for security and directed the police to take him to the prison in a separate vehicle.
A lawyer present in the courtroom said the court considered Kumar’s plea for security since there was a threat as he was also facing prosecution in another 1984 Sikh genocide case.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that the other two perpetrators of the 1984 Sikh genocide namely Mahendra Yadav and Kishan Khokhar, also surrendered before the Court today. Notably, the Court had extended their quantum of sentence from 3 to 10 years in its verdict addressed on December 17. 
It is pertinent to note here that Sajjan Kumar has challenged the Delhi High Court’s verdict in the Supreme Court, but his petition couldn’t be entertained by the Court due to winter vacations. His petition is likely to be taken up for hearing after the opening of the Supreme Court on January 2.
File photo of Mandoli Jail
Sajjan Kumar was imprisoned for life by the Delhi High Court on December 17 in a case pertaining to brutal killing of five members of a Sikh family in the Raj Nagar of Delhi’s cantonment area on November 1, 1984. The Court had asked him to surrender before the authorities on December 31.