An Indian court on Monday convicted a former politician for his role in riots that swept India in 1984, leaving thousands of Sikhs dead in bloody pogroms, and sentenced him to life in prison. The Delhi High Court reversed an earlier acquittal of Sajjan Kumar in the riots, which broke out after then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was killed by her Sikh bodyguards. The 73-year-old Kumar, then a leader in Gandhi's Congress party, was convicted of inciting a New Delhi mob to kill a Sikh family. More than 3,000 Sikhs were killed just in New Delhi in the riots. In their ruling, the judges said many of those responsible for the 1984 riots had escaped justice for too long.

Source: ABC News December 17, 2018 09:31 UTC