New Delhi, Oct 17: The Delhi High Court on Friday said it will hear on November 19 an appeal by former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar challenging his conviction and life imprisonment in a murder case connected to the 1984 Sikh Massacre.

The appeal, initially scheduled before a bench of Justices Vivek Chaudhary and Manoj Jain, could not be heard on Friday and has now been rescheduled. Kumar was awarded life imprisonment on February 25 by a trial court, which took into account his advanced age and illness while deciding against the death penalty.

The trial court noted that while the killings of “two innocent persons” in this case were grave offences, they did not constitute a “rarest of rare” scenario warranting capital punishment. The case pertains to the murders of Jaswant Singh and his son Ta

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