New Delhi, May 3
A Delhi court today awarded life imprisonment to former Army officer S.J. Choudhary for killing businessman Krishan Sikand in a parcel bomb explosion 26 years ago.

“I sentence you to life term,” District and Sessions Judge Mamta Sehgal said, pronouncing the sentence in a jam-packed courtroom. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on him.

The court did not agree with the CBI’s contention that the former Lt-Colonel deserved death sentence for killing a defenceless person in a pre-planned manner that too without any provocation.

Choudhary, 70, was on April 28 found guilty by the court for the murder of Krishan Sikand (40), who had died in an explosion caused by a parcel bomb delivered at his Sunder Nagar residence here on October 2, 1982. — PTI