New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- The prosecution has sought the death penalty for former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar who was convicted by a Delhi court last week over the killings of two Sikhs in the national capital during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots saying the crime was committed in a "brutal and diabolical manner". The prosecution said the case was "graver than the Nirbhaya case" of 2012 in a written submission filed before special judge Kaveri Baweja. "The present case is graver than the Nirbhaya case as in the Nirbhaya case, a young woman was targeted but in the present case, people of a particular community were targeted," it said.

Arguments on the quantum of sentencing will take place on February 20 as the lawyers were on strike on Tuesday.

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