Appalled by the CBI’s decision to drop all the charges against Jagdish Tytler in the “1984 anti-Sikh riots” case, Nita relives those horror-filled days:
They stared at my short hair and then at the others…and laughed. ‘Sikh nahi hai…‘ (There are no Sikhs here) they said to each other. Then one of them stuck his face back in. ‘Dicky me chupaya hai kya?’ (Have you hidden them in the boot?) My father said no. But they checked. As they did I saw them catch a young twenty year old boy and set him on fire. As our car rolled by, for some reason I saw the scene in slow-motion…the boy screaming…till today I see that scene as vividly as if it were yesterday.
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