New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday awarded life imprisonment to three persons for attempting to murder members of a Sikh family during the 1984 riots and imposed a fine of Rs 6.20 lakh for being involved in the crime.
Mangal Sen alias Billa, Brij Mohan Verma and Bhagat Singh were held guilty of attempt to murder, rioting, dacoity in Shastri Nagar in north Delhi by Additional Sessions Judge S S Rathi on August 22.
The judge, who had made a strong indictment of the manner in which the Delhi police and the state machinery had acted during the anti-Sikh riots, pronounced the quantum of sentence against the three convicts in a packed court room.