India, Jan. 22 -- A Delhi court on Thursday acquitted former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in a case related to allegedly inciting violence in the Janakpuri and Vikaspuri areas of the national capital during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh of the Delhi District Court orally pronounced a brief order acquitting Kumar, while noting that a detailed, reasoned judgment will be issued later.

In August 2023, the court had framed charges against Kumar for rioting and promoting enmity between communities, but discharged him of the more serious offences of murder and criminal conspiracy. The case stemmed from two FIRs registered in February 2015 by a special investigation team probing incidents of violence during the riots.

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