Mahendra Yadav (1949/1950 5 July 2020) was a politician in the

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. He was an MLA from

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constituency in 1998. He was convicted in a

1984 anti-Sikh riots The 1984 anti-Sikh riots, also known as the 1984 Sikh massacre, was a series of organised pogroms against Sikhs in India following the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. Government estimates project that about 2,800 Sikhs w ...

case and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Death

Yadav died on 4 July 2020 at the age of 70 from

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during the

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. Mahendra Yadav was serving sentence in jail 14 at Mandoli Jail, a sub-jail of Tihar Jail. After a prisoner died from COVID-19 on June 15, all 29 prisoners were tested, with 17 positive and 12 negative results. However, on June 25, the 12 negative prisoners were retested and 3, including Mahendra Yadav, tested positive. On June 26, Yadav felt unwell and experienced heart-related issues, and was taken to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital before being transferred to Loknayak Jaiprakash Hospital. His relatives requested that his admission to a private hospital under police protection and the jail administration granted their request. Yadav was admitted to Akash Health Care Hospital in Dwarka on June 30, where he ultimately passed away on July 4.

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Death

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