![India Needs Legislation to Combat Religious Violence](https://www.jurist.org/commentary/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/01/Delhi_India_Gate_9713630068.jpg)
When the Delhi High Court sentenced a former parliamentarian to life in prison for his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom in December, it ended an excruciating 34-year ordeal for victims of the hate crime that shook India’s national conscience and threatened to tear apart its social fabric. Spurts of sectarian violence are not uncommon in [...]