After a tormenting 34-year wait, the Delhi High Court verdict on Monday sentencing Congress leader Sajjan Kumar to life in jail in a 1984 riots case seems as only "partial justice" to the victims of the violence who asserted that the perpetrators should be given death sentence.
The victims, who claimed they faced threats and oppression in their long legal battle, wished they had got justice earlier and demanded that the leaders involved in the violence should be given a punishment befitting their reprehensible crime of "murdering innocents".
Jagdish Kaur and Narpreet Kaur, whose families were devastated in the riots which claimed over 3,000 lives, said although 34 years is a long time, they were determined to "unmask the accused" and their their fight for justice will go on.
"This verdict has brought some relief. No one should face the kind of injustice we have faced all these years," Jagdish Kaur said.
She said, "They should be burnt as they did to our children.... so that they realise how it feels to murder innocents."
"We have faced threats and oppression to backtrack but continued our legal battle due to support from our lawyers and leaders," she said