Victim’s family get Rs 5 lakh compensation

The issue of occupancy of flats at the CRPF Colony,Dugri,by 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims continued to simmer for the second day on Tuesday. Some of the displaced families sat outside the flats and refused to budge.

A clash had broken out between at this colony on Monday between riot victims and government employees residing in a section of the flats. The riot victims claim that the employees were supported by the police. This clash left Jaspal Singh dead and his cremation took place on Tuesday afternoon. Singh’s cremation was attended by D S Cheema,political advisor to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal,who announced a grant of Rs 5 lakh to the family of the deceased and a job for one of his children. Jaspal Singh is survived by his wife and four children.

While the riot victims claim that Singh died as a result of injuries received during the clash,the police and doctors who tended to him claim that he died of a cardiac arrest.