CPS Sidhu meets PM for probe into ’84 riots relief
Thursday, 03/03/2016
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AMRITSAR: Punjab chief parliamentary secretary (CPS) Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his office seeking probe into the distribution of ` 440 crore granted by the Centre to the Punjab government in June 2006 as compensation for victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
She told Modi that ` 2 lakh were to be distributed to each of the victim families for which a three-member committee was constituted. “Later thousands of identification cards for distribution of ` 2 lakh per family were found bogus. Also, those who were given grants received only ` 1 lakh each,” she told the PM.
Alleging that ` 1 lakh per family was retained as bribe, Dr Sidhu said worse, thousands of card holders who never received the cash, were shown to have received their dues on papers. “More than 500 government flats were forcibly acquired and sold, and hundreds of such flats were being illegally rented out,” she added, urging the PM to reopen the inquiry so that aggrieved families got their due.
