New Delhi, Feb. 13 -- A Delhi court on Wednesday convicted former Congress parliamentarian Sajjan Kumar in an anti-Sikh riots case for instigating a mob to kill a man and his son in Delhi's Saraswati Vihar on November 1, 1984, culminating a roughly four-decade-long legal battle and multiple investigations that highlighted serious lapses and "attempts to shield" Kumar.

Special judge Kaweri Baweja held that Kumar actively incited the violent mob that killed Jaswant Singh and his son Tarundeep Singh in one of the most gory crimes during the anti-Sikh riots that killed at least 2,800 people in the national capital alone.

The court said the prosecution successfully established Kumar's role in orchestrating the attack and leading the unlawful...