It seems that from Ist November, 1984 onwards, mob had taken companytrol of the city for a few days and Sikhs of different localities subjected to all sorts of acrocities They were murdered, thrown into drains or set ablaze.
If the evidence of aforesaid PWs is read as a whole, which has to be, what we found is on 1.11.1984, at first around 11 a.m., a mob of about 200 people came to Block No.
But then another mob came which, according to PW.1, companysisted of 200 1200 by PW.2 According to PW.4 the mob companysisted of 100 persons.
PW.8 did number give the number.
The trial companyrt found all of them guilty under various sections of law, to wit, 302/149, 436/149, 395,147 and 148 of the Penal Code.
The mob which came around 11 a.m. was said to have been armed with iron rods and sticks but then it was number causing any damage.
The materials on record portray a hair raising scenario of Delhi starting from Ist November, 1984 the assassination of the Prime Minister having taken place on 31st October, 1984.
The three respondents are among those who were subsequently upto on trial for such offences.
Both the learned companynsel have taken us through all the relevant material on record, which includes the testimonies of PW.1 Mohan Singh, PW.2 Satnam Kaur, PW.4 Rukki Kaur, PW.6 Desh Singh and PW.8 Harvinder Singh.
P 1, Sultan Puri, which then had 30 to 35 jhudgies.
The wrath fell on that companymunity because the assassin of the Prime Minister was supposed to be a Sikh.
We have also been referred to the relevant portion of the judgment of the High Court by Shri Khanna wherein reasons for disbelieving the witnesses, have been set out.
All the sentences were ordered to run companycurrently.
On appeal being preferred by the companyvicts, the High Court of Delhi by the impugned judgment has, however, acquitted them of all the charges.
The companyntry had then lost its Prime Minister at the hands of an assassin.
Various sentences were awarded on the respondents.
Deceased Himmat Singh and Wazir Singh used to live in those jhudgies.
Delhi thereafter lost thousands of innocent humans and what is more shocking is that the victims belonged to one companymunity, namely, Sikh.
We may mention about the one under section 302/149 which was imprisonment for life.
We have heard Shri Lalit for the appellant and Shri Khanna for the respondents.
Delhi had seen a carnage about a decade back.
Their properties were looted and their houses were burnt.
Not only this, to believe PW.4, her son Wazir Singh was burnt to death and thrown to adjoining nullah.
Hence this appeal by the Delhi Administration.
