SrinagarThe State Human Rights Commission has found payment of Rs 2500 each as compensation to three persons injured near encounter at Pulwama in 2012 as not proportionate to their sufferings.
The commission had taken suo-moto cognizance of the firing in Pulwama in south Kashmir.
In a report submitted before the commission, the Superintendent of Police stated that the trioJahangir Ahmad Mir, Mohammad Yaseen Bhat and Showkat Ahmad Mir suffered injuries during the course of an encounter between the militants and the government forces. Two of them had received injuries in the arms and another injury in leg.
In view of the report of the Superintendent of Police it is established that the (trio) were innocent, passersby who suffered injuries in the encounter. All the three have produced disability certificates. Each of them have suffered disability of 20%, said Justice (retd) Bilal Nazki, the chairperson of the Commission.
All the three are young people and are from the families belonging to below poverty line. They have been paid an ex-gratia relief of Rs.2500 twenty five hundred per person. I don’t think the money paid to them is in anyway compensation proportionate to the sufferings they have undergone, the commission said and ordered the government to pay Rs. 50,000 to each injured to serve interest of justice.
The amount, the SHRC ordered shall be paid to them within a period of three months. The Deputy Commissioner Pulwama shall file ATR (Action taken report) by due date.
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