Court orders state to pay compensation to Matwada victims

As you know sometime back court had given orders to state administration to pay compensation of Rs 1 lakh each to 3 widows of tribals killed in Matwada Salwa Judum camp by SPOs and police. But all these while administration was harassing these women and was asking them to give it in writing that their husbands were killed by Maoists. Today the Bilaspur high court has ordered the administration to pay the compensation by 26th of July

Posted on: Jul 21, 2010. Tags: Himanshu Kumar

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