People, Positions and Obituaries · 21 August 2026

Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar Dies at 80

Exam-focused facts from the 21 August 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

  • Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar died at the age of 80 in Delhi.
  • He was serving a life sentence in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
  • He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Delhi High Court on 17 December 2018 for the killing of five Sikhs and burning of a gurdwara.
  • In February 2025, a Delhi court sentenced him to life imprisonment in another case involving the killing of two Sikh men.
  • He represented the Outer Delhi constituency in the Lok Sabha three times and resigned from the Congress in 2018.

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