New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday distributed compensation cheques to families of 1,300 people killed in 1984 anti-Sikh riots on the 31st anniversary of the carnage even as the victims' kin asserted that they wanted justice more than anything.
Kejriwal accompanied by his deputy Manish Sisodia distributed the enhanced compensation cheques of Rs 5 lakh each in West Delhi's Tilak Vihar area to the families of the people killed in the riots that rocked Delhi in the aftermath of assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
The families, however, said they are still waiting for justice and that seeing the guilty being punished would be their real compensation.
"It is good that government has taken some initiative but three decades have passed since then, money can't remove the memories of seeing your loved ones being burnt in front of your eyes. Punishing guilty is more important," said Kartar Singh, who lost his father in the riots.
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Wheelchair bound 75-year-old Kantra Rani, who lost her two sons in the riots, broke down while waiting in queue to get her compensation cheque and said, "for the past 31 years we have been living on a fragile hope of getting justice. What happened was barbaric. I lost my innocent sons. God will punish those who are guilty".
