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Early Times Report
Jammu, July 31 : Urging the Jammu and Kashmir government to grant Rs 10 lakh compensation and job to family members of Amarnath pilgrim killed in stone-pelting in Kashmir, VHP today demanded a CBI probe into the incident.
"We appeal the state government for a compensation of at least Rs 10 lakh to the bereaved poor family of Amarnath pilgrim Ravi Kant and government job for at least two members of the family," VHP state chief Rama Kant Dubey told reporters here.
He said a CBI inquiry should be ordered into the incident and also in Gool firing incident so that persons responsible for it, including police and administration, are brought to book. "The over-ground and underground anti-national elements be permanently branded as militants," he said.The family of Ravi Kant, who was killed in stone-pelting in Kashmir, was granted just Rs 2 lakh compensation, he said.
Ravi Kant Sharma (38), a resident of Rajouri district of Jammu region, was injured in stone-pelting by miscreants at Awantipora area in Valley on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway on July 19 and succumbed at a hospital in Srinagar yesterday. He belonged to a very poor family of Sunderbani and was rehri vendor and used to live in one room mud house, along with his wife, one minor daughter and two sons. The family has no source of income. |
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