Three people have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court for lynching three members of a Sikh family during the 1984 riots.
A fine of Rs 5,000 each was imposed on the convicts - Harprasad Bhardwaj, R P Tiwari and Jagdish Giri.
However, the court rejected the prosecution's contention that the offence fell under the 'rarest of the rare' category for which the three convicts should get death penalty.
"Rigorous life imprisonment would meet the ends of justice," said Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri.
The three have been convicted for leading a mob on November 1-2 and attacking the house of complainant Harminder Kaur in 1984 in an East Delhi locality after anti-Sikh riots broke out.
As per the prosecution, Kaur's husband Niranjan Singh, a Head Constable with the Delhi Police, who was on duty at Shahdara Railway Station on November 1, 1984, was lynched and set ablaze by a mob led by the convicts.
Her 17-year-old son Gurpal Singh and son-in-law Mahender Singh were killed the next day by the accused.
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