New Delhi: A special court here has awarded life imprisonment to former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. Earlier, some members of the Sikh community had demanded the death penalty for the former MP.

Earlier this month, Rouse Avenue court found Kumar guilty in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case related to the killing of Jaswant Singh and his son Tarundeep Singh on November 1, 1984.

Special judge Kaveri Baweja pronounced the judgement. The complainant and the prosecution had sought death penalty for Kumar.

The offence of murder carried a maximum punishment of death penalty, while the minimum sentence was life imprisonment.

Kumar is already serving a life sentence in another anti-Sikh riots case linked to the violence in Delhi Cantt. Kumar is currently lodged in Tihar jail.

Though Punjabi Bagh Police Station registered the case, a special investigation team took over the investigation much later.

The prosecution alleged a huge mob, armed with deadly weapons, resorted to large-scale looting, arson and destruction of properties of Sikhs to avenge the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.