Sikh massacre case convict granted interim bail by Delhi High Court

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today granted 10 days’ interim bail to Balwan Khokhar, a convict in a November 1984 Sikh carnage related case who is serving life imprisonment.

A division bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Ashutosh Kumar granted interim bail to Khokhar on medical grounds and to attend his son’s marriage on April 30.

Balwan Khokhar pleaded before the court that he be allowed to attend his son’s marriage notes a news published by the Business Standard (BS).

Khokhar was convicted in a case related to the murder of five members of a family in Raj Nagar area of Delhi Cantonment on November 1, 1984, a day after the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi. Four more people were convicted along with him.