HARISH VAIDYANATHAN SHANKAR, J.
1. The present Criminal Revision Petition was instituted in the Suo
Moto exercise of powers under Section 401 of the Code of Criminal
Procedure, 19731, pursuant to the Order dated 29.03.2017 passed by
this Court. This Court, on prima facie assessment, found that the
Judgment dated 04.08.1986 passed by the learned Additional
Sessions Judge, New Delhi2 in Sessions Case No. 33/86 titled as
State vs. Mahender Singh Manan & Ors, was unsustainable. The Ld.
ASJ, by the said judgement, acquitted the two accused persons in the
case of the alleged killing of one Shri Avtar Singh, a Sikh, during the
riots which ensued in Delhi in the year 1984, in the aftermath of the
assassination of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India.