Timeline of the Mahipalpur case

November 1, 1984: Two men were killed, three others injured after a mob armed with sticks and other weapons attacked them and threw them down from the first floor of a building in Delhi’s Mahipalpur. FIR (406/84) was registered at the Mehrauli police station the same day.

February 23, 1985: Chargesheet filed against Jai Pal Singh.

September 9, 1985: Santokh Singh, brother of three victims, filed an affidavit before Justice Rangnath Justice Ranganath Misra Commission that was formed to probe the killings for filing a separate case.

December 20, 1986: Sessions court acquitted Jai Pal Singh of all the charges. The other two accused Naresh Sehrawat and Yashpal Singh did not face trial.

1993: Fresh FIR was filed on Santokh’s affidavit on the recommendation of Justice JD Jain and DK Aggarwal committee

February 9, 1994: Metropolitan Magistrate TS Kashyap accepted the untraced (closure) report filed in the case by the Delhi Police, saying the police could not gather evidence to prosecute Sehrawat and Singh

February 12, 2015: Central government constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) to reopen and further investigate anti-Sikh

riots cases, which were either cancelled or closed for want of evidence.

July 8, 2016: The SIT intimated the Patiala House Court about re-opening and further investigation of the case

January 31, 2017: The SIT filed the chargesheet against Sehrawat and Singh.

November 14, 2018: The court convicted the two men.

November 15, 2018: Sehrawat was assaulted by Delhi’s Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) legislator Manjinder Singh Sirsa outside the courtroom moments after the court reserved its order on the quantum of punishment.

November 20, 2018: The court pronounced death sentence for Singh and life term for Sehrawat.