Feeding false information to SC : Spinning out fantastic tales
- The Sangai Express Editorial :: July 21 2016 -
Either the State Government is dumb or
does not think much about playing with
fire. How else does one explain the fact
that it submitted a totally wrong information to the Supreme Court of India,
regarding the payment of compensation to the next of kins of 28 people who were killed by security forces under dubious claims ?
For the record, the Supreme Court of India had ruled that the State Government should pay Rs 5 lakh each to the family members of 28 people killed under
dubious circumstances on December 8, 2015. Since the compensation was not paid at all, the Supreme Court again ruled
on April 22 this year that compensation of Rs 5,50,000 should be paid to each of the family members of the 28 people killed
within four weeks time, counting from April 22 this year.
In hiking the compensation from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 5, 50,000, the apex
Court of the country was penalising the State Government for failing to pay the
compensation as ordered on December 8
last year.
Tough to say what prompted it
to come out with such an outlandish claim,
but on July 13 this year, the counsels of
the State Government submitted before
the Supreme Court that the compensation
amount has been paid. Now with family
members of 11 of the 28 victims coming
out in the open and claiming that they still
have not received a single paise, one
wonders how the State Government will
respond once this reaches the notice of
the Supreme Court.
Money. Definitely this will not bring back
the dead, but in imposing the financial
penalty the Supreme Court is sending out
the message that the State is there to
protect its citizens and there will be penalty to pay if this is flouted.
Pull up the
State for failing to protect is citizens and
provide some reprieve to the family members. Also remember that most of the
victims were the sole bread earners of the
family and the financial trouble the families
must have endured after their lives were
snuffed out can only be imagined.
This is
what Human Rights Alert and EEVFAM also
want to convey to all concerned. Moreover in submitting false information to the
Supreme Court, the State Government may also be said to be demonstrating its
haughtiness, under the impression that
they can get away by cooking up some
fantastic tale. For now the truth lies exposed before the public and while the
family members must be lauded for coming out in the open, the State Government
should reconcile to the fact that they cannot always get away by spinning out some fantastic tales.
Time to separate fiction from the fact.
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