India, March 5 -- The Delhi high court has refused to accept an appeal put forward by the Delhi Police against a 30-year-old city court's order to acquit 16 people in connection with a case stemming from the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

The case pertained to the November 1, 1984 murder of three people by a mob in Delhi's Nand Nagri area.

On Tuesday, a bench of justices Prathiba M Singh and Saurabh Banerjee, while acknowledging the loss of human lives and property during the riots, said that the delay of filing an appeal in January 2025 against a ruling delivered on February 22, 1995, could not be condoned.

In its eight-page order, delivered on February 25 but released later, the court also relied on four rulings delivered by a coordinate benc...