"When a big tree falls, the earth shakes" . Infamous words spoken by former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in the aftermath of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Implicit, is a vile justification of the systematic and brutal massacre of thousands of Sikhs in the country. Conservative estimates say more than 3,000 Sikhs were killed. But the women raped, children tortured, families destroyed and Sikhs burnt alive or dismembered cannot be stacked as a statistic. On March 11, 2015, Nirmal Kaur, her daughter Kamaljeet and son Inderpal Singh were forcibly removed from their home in Moga, Punjab and shifted to a mental asylum in Amritsar.

According to their neighbours, they have not stepped out of their home in over 30 years; traumatised, mentally unstable and afraid, as a result of the 1984 riots.
Nirmal Kaur's husband Joginder Singh Bedi, a retired Indian Railway employee, filled a petition in the local court requesting his family be shifted to an asylum for treatment. The police acting on the Chief Judicial Magistrate's orders, acted accordingly.

Source: khalsanews.org