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1984 massacre
victims: Probe brings out total mess,
apathy of regime
WSN Network
LUDHIANA:
Bogus people drawing up claims for compensation, posing as 1984
anti-Sikh massacre victims, a corrupt administration clearing their
cases whil rejecting those of perfectly innocent victims who have
been knocking at every door for decades. These are the results of an
inquiry conducted by none other than the Patiala division
commissioner S.K. Ahluwalia on orders of the state government.
Bringing out the apathetic regime’s real nature, the morallybankrupt
attitude towards victims and a total absence of conscience and
diligence, the inquiry has put in the dock the
Ludhiana deputy commissioner, along with an SDM and three employees.
The three employees have been suspended, the SDM has been asked to
explain while the DC is trying to wash his hands of the matter.
“Some people were virtually minting money from sufferings of
thousands of 1984 Sikh massacre victims,” Ahluwalia said. Aspertions
were also being cast on the role of the leadershio of the Danga
Peerat Welfare Association, the forum that was representing those
whose claims were rejected.
The raging controversy over the “arbitrary rejection of these cases”
and claims by the DC office that 90 per cent of the compensation
claims were bogus had become a serious trouble for Chief Minister
Parkash Singh Badal. He had announced in his manifesto that
compensation would be paid to all the massacre victims.
The Danga Peerat Welfare Association said only 2 per cent of the
total applications of the massacre-hit victims were approved.
Now, the SDM has been removed and instead IAS officer J S Kaler has
been put in place.
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April 2008
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