{"id":25988,"date":"2018-12-18T10:23:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T10:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25988"},"modified":"2018-12-18T10:23:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T10:23:46","slug":"life-in-jail-over-gandhi-assassination-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25988","title":{"rendered":"Life in jail over Gandhi assassination riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>An Indian court has sentenced a former politician to life in prison for inciting anti-Sikh violence in riots after the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi which claimed thousands of lives. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Sajjan Kumar was a key leader of Gandhi&#8217;s then-ruling Congress Party when she was gunned down by two of her Sikh bodyguards. They killed her four months <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/10\/29\/india.sikhs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">after she ordered<\/a> Indian troops to storm the Golden Temple &#8212; one of Sikhism&#8217;s holiest shrines &#8212; to flush out separatists.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Thousands of Sikhs across the country were killed by mobs in the days after Gandhi&#8217;s assassination, including 2,733 in Delhi alone, <a href=\"http:\/\/lobis.nic.in\/ddir\/dhc\/SMD\/judgement\/17-12-2018\/SMD17122018CRLA10992013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the High Court of Delhi said Monday in its ruling overturning a lower court&#8217;s 2013 acquittal of<\/a> Kumar. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)An Indian court has sentenced a former politician to life in prison for inciting anti-Sikh violence in riots after the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi which claimed thousands of lives. Sajjan Kumar was a key leader of Gandhi&#8217;s then-ruling Congress Party when she was gunned down by two of her Sikh bodyguards. They&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}