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Survivors remember brutality stories in 1984, Anti-Sikh riots

New Delhi: It was a different day at Gate no. 6 of the Rouse Avenue Court on Tuesday. Unlike other days there is a lot there, the families of those killed in 1984 Anti-Sikh revolts After gathered there to wait for the condemnation of the former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar for his role in killing two Sikhs.
As soon as the family of the victims of the revolt heard that Kumar had received a Life sentenceMany of them broke out in tears. There were many who sounded disappointed, believing that the former politicians deserve a death sentence in the case of killing the father-son duo, Jaswant Singh and Tarrudeep Singh on November 1, 1984, in Saraswati Vihar, in the northwest of Delhi.

Pappi Kaur, 55 years old, from Trilokpuri, who witnessed her father and brother beaten and then burned alive, said: “Sajjan Kumar will remain alive, will receive medical care and other facilities and meet his family.
The Kin of the victims of the revolts of 1984 gathered in the court in the hope of a maximum punishment, holding banners in Hindi, English and Punjabi, urging Kumar to be the sentence to death.

supreme court The main lawyer HS Phoolka, who fought for the victims of the revolts, told everyone: “The two crimes were part of the genocide of a community. Therefore, it is necessary to send a message according to which this country will not tolerate such mass killings. The court, because of the reports from the Tihar prison administration, where Kumar is currently submitted, has taken the age and health conditions as careful factors. Kumar’s medical condition. “
Sheela Kaur, who was 29 years old at the time of the revolts, remembered how brutal the violence against the Sikhs after the Indira Gandhi assassination by her Sikh body guards. “The Sikhi men were dragged from houses and brutally beaten. Their lining was forced, they were dragged by hair and they were lit in front of us,” Kaur said. “My father, brother and relatives were killed in this way. I went on the flesh, blood and human remains after all this carriage. But even death was better than what we were made to pass.”
Unable to control himself, Bhagi Kaur, 75, complained that the 1984 killings were a wound that had never healed. “The way in which the police and the government of that time have collided with revolts, including elected representatives, have never been seen or heard in independent India,” she said. “Kerosen tanks were brought, the police told us to run and hide in our homes, while the crowd killed our husbands, fathers and sons. Sajjan Kumar should have been hanged long ago. “
Former Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak a member of the Gurlad Singh Kahlon committee, who submitted a pile to the Supreme Court, in which the Apex Court constituted a special investigation team led by the Snhingra (RETD) in 2018 to investigate 186 cases related to anti -violence -Sikh since 1984 in 1984, he called the conviction of Kumar’s life a symbolic justice. “This is more a symbolic justice, not a complete one. But at this moment, this means a lot. However, much more must be done to give justice to the victims of the 1984 riots,” Kahlon said.