India, Feb. 25 -- Former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday by a special court in Delhi in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The sentence was awarded by Delhi's Rouse Avenue court, which rejected a plea for the death penalty to Sajjan Kumar.

This case pertains to the killing of Jaswant Singh and his son Tarundeep Singh on November 1, 1984.

Jaswant's wife, the complainant in the case, and the state had sought death penalty for Sajjan Kumar. The offence of murder entails a minimum of life term in jail and death sentence as the maximum punishment.

Special Judge Kaveri Baweja rejected the plea for a death penalty for Sajjan Kumar, saying that the case is not the "rarest of rare" and is not fi...