India, Feb. 25 -- A Delhi court on Tuesday sentenced former Congress parliamentarian Sajjan Kumar, 79, to life imprisonment in connection with the murder of two men during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi's Saraswati Vihar area.

Special judge Kaveri Baweja of Rouse Avenue Court on February 12 convicted Sajjan Kumar for instigating a mob to kill Jaswant Singh and his son Tarundeep Singh and his son on November 1, 1984.

Jaswant Singh's family and the prosecution had sought death penalty for Sajjan Kumar, contending that his role in the 1984 riots amounted to genocide and ethnic cleansing.

The 1984 riots erupted in the wake of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination by her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984, and led to the killing ...