20 November,2018 04:53 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
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A Delhi court Tuesday awarded death penalty to convict Yashpal Singh for killing two men in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the first capital punishment in the case.
Additional Sessions Judge Ajay Pandey also awarded life term to co-convict Naresh Sherawat in the case.
The verdict pronounced in the Tihar Jail due to security concerns and attack on the convicts on the premises of the Delhi court.
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On November 14, the court had convicted Singh and Sherawat for killing two men here during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots -- the first conviction in the cases reopened by the SIT.
The Delhi Police had closed the case in 1994 for want of evidence. However, a Special Investigation Team on the riots reopened it.
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