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New Delhi Feb. 11. A victim of the 1984 riots today informed the Justice Nanavati Commission that rioters were given Rs. 50 and a bottle of liquor for killing every Sikh in West Delhi. Gurdeep Kaur, whose family in Tilak Vihar lost seven members in the riots, said she heard the rioters talking about the deal after setting on fire a tubewell house where their menfolk were hiding. ``They were all laughing and saying that to kill one Sardar they got Rs. 50 and a bottle of liquor,'' she informed the panel.

Ms. Kaur's husband, two sons and four other relatives were burnt alive a day after the assassination of the former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.

Ms. Kaur identified 16 of the rioters most of whom were from the same area. _ UNI

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