‘Will move SC to seek capital punishment’

Amritsar | Tuesday | 18th December, 2018

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I will move SC, seeking death punishment for Kumar and others responsible,” she said. I will fight for justice till my last breath. “I am not scared of anyone. AMRITSAR: For 76-year-old Jagdish Kaur , one of the witnesses in the case against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar , the Delhi high court verdict on Monday is “too less and too late.”Kumar, who was just 42 when a frenzied mob slaughter her husband and elder son in a New Delhi locality on November 1, 1984 , told TOI soon after the court ruling that she wants to move the Supreme Court to seek death sentence for Kumar.“Murderers of Sikhs don’t deserve life sentence, but death. I will demand capital punishment for Sajjan Kumar in the Supreme Court,” she told TOI.Jagdish, who lost five members of her family in the 1984 riots, says she has been facing threats and oppression in her battle for justice for the last 34 years.The memory of that horrific November day, of her dying husband writhing in pain in a blood-spattered room and of her 18-year-old son trying to run to safety being chased by a mob and being burnt near her house, has not dimmed a bit.“Justice has been delivered, but too less and too late,” she said from Delhi, where she has been camping for the last two days to hear the high court verdict..