Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Secularism

Question:

How do the families of the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots feel about the justice system?

Options:

They believe the guilty were adequately punished.

They feel that the guilty were not punished.

They are indifferent to the justice system.

They think the trials were fair and just.

Correct Answer:

They feel that the guilty were not punished.

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 2 - They feel that the guilty were not punished.

The families of the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots feel that the guilty were not punished.

In our own country, India, the Constitution declares that every Indian citizen has a right to live with freedom and dignity in any part of the country. Yet in reality, many forms of exclusion and discrimination continue to persist. Consider the three most stark examples: 

More than 2,700 Sikhs were massacred in Delhi and many other parts of the country in 1984. The families of the victims feel that the guilty were not punished.
Several thousands of Hindu Kashmiri pandits have been forced to leave their homes in the Kashmir valley; they have not been able to return to their homes for more than two decades.
More than 1,000 persons were killed during the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat in 2002. The surviving members of many of these families could not go back to the villages in which they lived.