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Sajjan Kumar Is Dead. The Question His Case Raised Isn't.

Kumar's death closes the file on one of the few political convictions to emerge from the 1984 violence, which killed over 2,700 Sikhs in Delhi alone and revives scrutiny of how long India's justice system took to convict a single accused leader - 34 years from the violence to his first conviction. Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar, serving life imprisonment for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, died at Safdarjung Hospital on August…