India, March 11 -- The Delhi high court on Monday admitted an appeal filed by the Delhi police against a city court's 2022 order acquitting an individual in connection with a case stemming from the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

The case pertained to the November 1, 1984, murder of a man named Sher Singh in Delhi by two people, Babu Lal and Shiv Shankar, in Mangolpuri. The FIR was filed in 1992 under sections 147 (rioting)/148 (rioting armed with deadly weapon) /149 (unlawful assembly) /302 (murder)/307 (attempt to murder) /436 (mischief by fire) /395 (dacoity) of the Indian Penal Code against the two, but proceedings against Shiv Shankar had abated after his death in August 2010.

"Considering the case in hand, it is a fit case for grant of leav...