New Delhi, Nov. 8 -- The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice in a petition filed by former Congress councillor Balwan Khokhar, convicted and sentenced to life in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, seeking three weeks' furlough to reconnect with family. A bench of justice Ravinder Dudeja sought the jail director general (DG) of prisons' response and scheduled the next hearing to November 17. Khokhar has moved the high court challenging the September 4 order of the DG (prisons) rejecting his furlough request stating his release could pose a threat to law and order. In his plea, filed through advocate Uday Chauhan, Khokhar contended that the DG (prisons) failed to take into account that he has been granted furlough on multiple occasions in the past, during which no adverse incident was reported against him. Khokhar, along with four others, was convicted of murder and rioting in 2013 by a trial court. However, former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar was acquitted in the same case. The case dates to November 1, 1984, when five people from the Sikh community were killed and a gurudwara in Ghaziabad's Raj Nagar was torched following the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.shruti kakkar...