Rs 750 for burnt restaurant, Rs 8,500 for store: Delhi Assembly panel flags gaps in riot relief

Written by Sourav Roy Barman
| New Delhi |

Updated: September 18, 2020 9:08:55 am





Usman Ali (right) sought
Rs 3 lakh as compensation, got Rs 750. Sourav Roy Barman

After his small restaurant in Gokulpuri was vandalised and looted during the Northeast Delhi riots, Usman Ali sought  Rs 3 lakh in damages from the state government. He was paid Rs 750.

Days into her pregnancy, on February 25, Gulzeb Parveen’s husband Moshin Ali was killed. His charred body was found metres from the Khajuri Khas police station. On Tuesday, she gave birth to a baby girl, who is in the ICU at a Hapur hospital. “The compensation was withheld because we didn’t have Moshin’s death certificate… and that was delayed…

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