India, March 18 -- AGRA Aggrieved people, who lost their kin in the 1981 Dehuli massacre in the present-day Jasrana of Firozabad district, finally got justice after a long wait of over four decades when a special court in Mainpuri on Tuesday sentenced three persons to death in the violence that saw 24 Dalits, including women and two children, being killed.

The villagers fought the case in Mainpuri court (Dehuli village was part of Mainpuri district in 1981) and also in Allahabad, where the trial took place for four decades. When the verdict came, they celebrated the day and garlanded the portrait of Babasaheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar.

Banwari and Bhoop Singh, two villagers, were lauded for their long drawn struggle as they stood with the evi...