India, Feb. 13 -- Kuldeep Kaur, 73, was in her 30s when she watched, in horror, her husband being burnt alive in Nangloi during the anti-Sikh riots that ravaged parts of Delhi in November 1984. In four decades since, every time a newspaper report or a news channel ticker even mentions what unfolded in the streets of Delhi those three days, she weeps - for herself, her dead husband, and the hundreds of strangers who lost their families.

On Wednesday, as a Delhi court convicted former Congress parliamentarian Sajjan Kumar in an anti-Sikh riots case for instigating a mob to kill Jaswant Singh and his son Tarundeep Singh and his son in Delhi's Saraswati Vihar on November 1, 1984, Kaur wept again.

"I didn't know them; I don't know his wife a...