Chandigarh, Nov. 7 :    Chandigarh, Nov. 7:  Life as the widow of a suspected mass murderer has not been easy for Amarjit, widow of Captain S.S. Bhinder, co-pilot on the Kanishka aircraft. Bhinder was the principal suspect in the bombing that killed all 329 people on board - till Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri were arrested by the Canadian police last month. 'Something has happened at last,' Amarjit said, wiping away tears from her eyes. 'For years, I have lived with the stigma that my husband could have been involved. I have had to hear a lot of things from people, total strangers at that. I have lived through hell. I have lived only for my children, tried to play father to them,' she added. The Air-India flight had blown up mid-air on June 23, 1985, off the coast of Ireland. 'The people responsible for the terrible tragedy, whoever they are, should be punished. Justice should be meted out. For the last one-and-a-half years, I have been reading reports that the case launched by the Canadian authorities would reach its logical conclusion. I have been waiting for the last 15 years,' Amarjit said. 'I was 36 when the whole world collapsed around me. I had two children, daughter Jasleen and son Ashamdeep. My daughter was ten-and-a-half years old and my son just eight. They had no idea what had happened. They used to cry whenever I would break down. But both had the courage to face the tragedy. Seeing them made me stronger,' she recalled. The children have stuck to their father's profession in different ways. Ashamdeep will soon be flying a commercial airliner while Jasleen has married a pilot who works for a foreign airlines. 'Jasleen, too, wanted to become a pilot but gave up the idea before getting married to a pilot,' Amarjit said. Recounting the first few months after the crash, Amarjit said: 'There was the fear that I could be put into jail or interrogated as my husband was a Sikh and memories of Operation Bluestar were still fresh in the memories of the people. But I must admit that I was never troubled by government agencies. It seems now that they knew all along that a bomb had been planted in the aircraft and my husband had no role to play in any conspiracy to blow up the aircraft in mid-air. I have never been troubled.' Amarjit is Air India's manager for Punjab and Himachal Pradesh and is based in Chandigarh. 'I had applied for a job in Air India after the incident and was made assistant manager after eight months, in February 1986. The organisation has been very good to me. Nobody has ever made me feel that I got the job after a tragedy that hurt Indians. I had no job experience then. I was just a pampered housewife. But that did not matter. Every employee helped me get along with life. And now, along with the news that some people have been charged with planting a bomb in the ill-fated aircraft, I have been summoned by my seniors for a promotion interview,' she added. Amarjit, however, admitted that there is pressure on her from friends and relatives not to speak to the media. 'I am not saying anything except that justice should be meted out to those who planted the bomb in the aircraft. I know how it feels. I was just 36 then with two small children...,' she said. Accusing the media of jumping to conclusions about her husband's role in the crash, Amarjeet said: 'A lot of things were written, hinting at my husband's involvement in the incident. But the media seemed to forget that my husband fought the 1965 and 1971 wars for the country. He was very patriotic and even his decision to join Air India stemmed from that. He could have joined any other airline but opted for Air India. Will the media apologise to me now? No one else but the media questioned my husband's patriotism towards his own country,' she alleged. Amarjit, along with her children, continues to visit the spot in Ireland where a memorial has been built for the crash victims. 'We go there to pray for the souls of all those killed. It was not just a tragedy for me but for all those whose near and dear ones died then. My prayers are for all of them,' she said.