India, Jan. 22 -- A woman who watched her father being set on fire; a wife widowed in her youth; and a man who lost his loved ones in the 1984 riots, all stood outside a Delhi court on Thursday as the verdict on former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar's alleged involvement came in. He was acquitted in the case. For families of those killed in Delhi's Janakpuri and Vikaspuri areas during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the weight of their grief of four decades turned heavier.

"My father was burnt alive before my eyes, and I have spent 42 years moving from one court to another, clinging to the belief that justice would one day arrive," Nirmal Kaur told news agency PTI. She had tears rolling down her face.

She said her family never recovered from that d...