New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- Former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar was awarded life imprisonment by a special court for the murder of a father-son duo in Delhi's Saraswati Vihar area during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

The court on February 12 convicted Sajjan Kumar for the offense and sought a report from Tihar Central Jail authorities on his psychiatric and psychological evaluation in view of a Supreme Court order asking for such a report in cases attracting capital punishment.

The minimum punishment for murder is life imprisonment whereas the maximum is death. The complainant in the case, who lost her husband and son in a mob attack during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots allegedly incited by Kumar, requested the maximum penalty of death for him.

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