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Orissa sets up panel for 1984 victims
WSN Network

BHUBANESHWAR: Orissa government has set up a special committee to compensate victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh massacres in the state at a time when India’s top sleuthing agency, the CBI, is trying to protect former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler, senior Congress leader, allegedly involved in the mob killings. 

The special committee set up by the Orissa government will verify the FIRs filed during and after the 1984 massacre, besides sanctioning more compensation according to the new scheme declared by the union government in 2006. The Orissa government had sanctioned Rs 44 lakh for the purpose earlier this month. 

Three people were killed — two in Sundargarh district and one in Khurda district — and 25 injured in Orissa during the massacre that saw hundreds being burnt alove on the roads in India’s national capital. 

Earlier, family members of the deceased persons in Orissa had received Rs 3.5 lakh each as exgratia grant as per the central policy but the injured persons were yet to get additional compensation.

21 January 2009
 

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