Author: Pritha Chatterjee
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: October 1, 2011
URL: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/rajbalas-kin-turn-down-govt-compensation/854137/
Allege medical papers tampered with; SC orders
documents to be given to family
Five days after Rajbala succumbed to injuries
allegedly sustained in the Delhi Police crackdown at Ramlila Maidaan during
Baba Ramdev's fast, the Delhi government offered her family a compensation
of Rs 2 lakh. However, her family has turned it down, alleging that her medical
documents were tampered with.
Rajbala's daughter-in-law Rakesh Malik told
Newsline, "Her medico-legal report at Lok Nayak Hospital was tampered
with, our police complaint was not even converted to an FIR. Hospital authorities
harassed us before giving her medical records. What is the use of the money
now?"
While police maintain that Rajbala was injured
in the stampede, her family maintains that she had told them before her surgery
that she was injured in the police lathi charge at midnight on June 5.
V P Singh, Additional District Magistrate
(Central) confirmed that the compensation was rejected by Rajbala's kin.
Meanwhile on Friday, the Supreme Court described
as "unfair" the Delhi Police's and government's apparent reluctance
to part with the medical and autopsy reports of Rajbala. "Give the reports
to the family," the bench of Justices B S Chauhan and Swantanter Kumar
ordered.
- With inputs from Krishnadas Rajagopal