The Poonch family lost seven members of their family in an attack in 1999
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir State Human Right Commission (SHRC) has asked the Jammu and Kashmir government to pay a compensation of rupees 35 lakhs to a Poonch family who lost their seven members in an attack in 1999.
Roop Lal, a resident of Mendhar in Jammu & Kashmir’s Poonch district, had lodged a complaint with the SHRC alleging that seven members of his family were killed by militants who barged into his residential house in the intervening night of July 2, 1999, and that he had received ex-gratia compensation of just Rs one lakh from the state government.
The case was listed before the Commission on 11 -09-2017.
“After careful scrutiny of the material available on the record, the commission is satisfied that the complainant has made out a good case for grant of compensation to the tune of Rs 35 lakh,” SHRC member Jung Bahadur Singh Jamwal said in his order released by the commission.
“The Chief Secretary of the state is directed to pay sum of Rs five lakh each to the complainant against the killing of seven members of his family,” Jamwal added.
Jamwal said the delay on the part of the government to provide adequate compensation to Lal amounted to glaring “violation of human rights”.
“The incident is rare but the authorities concerned for the payment of compensation were reluctant and ignorant about the pain and sufferings of the complainant. The compensation whatever was due within ambit of various beneficial schemes floated by the government should have been extended to the complainant,” he said.
(With inputs from PTI)
