India, Feb. 26 -- New Delhi A Delhi court on Tuesday sentenced former Congress parliamentarian Sajjan Kumar to life imprisonment following his conviction in the brutal murder of a father and son during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Saraswati Vihar, Delhi, culminating a roughly four-decade-long battle for justice.

The verdict marked the second life term handed out to Kumar, 79, for his role in the deadly riots that followed then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination on October 31, 1984, by her Sikh bodyguards, leading to the killing of at least 2,800 people in the national capital alone.

Special judge Kaveri Baweja acknowledged the "brutal and reprehensible" nature of the crime but ruled out the death penalty, citing Kumar's satisfa...