{
  "id": 2105665,
  "title": "Ex-Congress MP Sajjan Kumar Dies At 80; Was Serving Life Sentence In Tihar Jail For Role In 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/ex-congress-mp-sajjan-kumar-dies-at-80-was-serving-life-sentence-in",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-20T08:26:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/ex-congress-mp-sajjan-kumar-dies-at-80-was-serving-life-sentence-in-tihar-jail-for-role-in-1984-anti-sikh-riots"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar died at the age of 80 on Thursday while serving a life sentence in Tihar Jail in connection with cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. According to sources cited by news agency ANI, Kumar was brought dead to Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital. Sajjan Kumar, former Member of Parliament and leader of the Indian National Congress, is no more. He was brought dead to…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "Sajjan Kumar, the rise and fall of a Congress strongman convicted in anti-Sikh riots",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/sajjan-kumar-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-congress-strongman-convicted-in",
        "published": "2026-08-20T10:37:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}