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Gujarat
riots: Extra Rs.85 crore relief to be given to victims
Tuesday December 14, 2010 05:51:43 PM,
IANS
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Gandhinagar: The Gujarat High Court was informed
Tuesday that the state government would disburse another Rs.85 crore compensation to 752 victims of the 2002 communal riots.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and
Justice K.M. Thaker was told by the state government that it would
disburse the amount after completing the administrative procedure.
The Gujarat government's statement followed the central
government's submission that it had given Rs.85 crore to the state
for compensating the riot victims.
The state government told the court that it earlier disbursed
Rs.262 crore released by the central government for the victims.
Counsel for the state government submitted that compensation in
six cases of death and 37 cases of injury linked to the riots had
not been disbursed due to dispute over the legal heir of victims
and absence of statutory documents.
There were a total 1,169 cases of death and 2,548 cases of injury
in the riots, the state government said.
The state government earlier refused to give jobs to family
members of those killed in riots in the absence of any policy. But
after a court direction, it set up a committee to decide the
issue.
On Tuesday, the court asked the state to inform it about the
decision taken on the issue of giving government jobs on
compassionate grounds.
The matter would come up next Jan 13.
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