The court also imposed a fine of Rs 35 lakh on each of them.Jagdish called the duo's conviction and sentencing "a beginning". "The big fish are still enjoying all privileges and are still immune to law," she said.At the time of the riots, Jagdish had managed to save her three daughters and five-year-old son by taking them to the house of one of her neighbour.She arrived in Amritsar in December 1984 and worked menial jobs to survive. AMRITSAR: A prime witness in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots has said that the real culprits who orchestrated the violence in Delhi are still out and the two men who have been handed down punishments, including the death penalty, for the mass killings have just been their foot soldiers.When the riots broke out in Delhi at the start of November that year, Jagdish Kaur lost her teenaged son, three brothers and husband.Sitting at her home in Amritsar, where she moved to in December 1984, Kaur said, "Those awarded sentences are nothing but foot soldiers who followed the orders of their masters, who are still out and free," said Jagdish, who claims to be witness to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar's role in the riots at Palam Colony in South-West Delhi.Of the two convicts, Yashpal Singh was given the death penalty for the riots, while Naresh Sehrawat was sentenced to life term.
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