Dysfunctional justice

The second life sentence awarded to sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti Sikh riots case is a demonstrative example of how justice itself becomes dysfunctional when delayed such ridiculously. The verdict is not restorative in any sense and retributive only symbolically and doesn’t provide any sense of closure to the victims. The 1984 riots are unique in fact that there was never any recurrence of it over the last 4 decades even in the face of the prolonged punjab militancy and subsequent provocation it posed. The Sikh community has demonstrably moved on and the Congress party has since formed multiple governments in punjab and Delhi. Sajjan Kumar is already serving a life sentence in this issue and another term makes little difference. The verdict is definitely useful as it helps the narrative war where
1984 is used to justify 2002 and repudiate any accountability of it and all subsequent riots be it 2014 muzaffarnagar or 2020 Delhi riots. The idea of political rioting by the incumbent government and immunity for its perpetrators has gained acceptance since.