The compensation has been announced to the families of Deepak Rao, Mohammed Fazil, Mohammad Mashood, Abdul Jaleel.
Team Clarion
NEW DELHI – The Karnataka government has announced compensation of Rs 25 lakh each to the families of the four individuals murdered in communal violence in Dakshina Kannada district last year.
The government announced compensation from Karnataka’s Chief Minister’s Relief Fund for the families of B Masood, Mohammed Fazil, Abdul Jaleel and Deepak Rao.
The order on the same was released on Friday by the Dakshina Kannada District Commissioner’s and the District Magistrate’s office. The order also directed victims’ kin to be at Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s home office, Krishna, at 8 am on Monday, June 19, media reports say.
Masood, 18, was killed over a trivial matter in Dakshina Kannada’s Bellare a week before Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) youth leader Praveen Nettar’s killing in the same village.
Mohammed Fazil, 23, was hacked to death by a few men in Dakshina Kannada’s Surathkal on July 28, two days after Nettar’s murder. The three murders had sent shockwaves in the district.
The then-BJP government and Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai were criticised heavily as the latter had met the family of Nettar and left without meeting the kin of Masood and Fazil. Compensation was only given to Nettar’s family and his wife received a contractural job in the government.
Deepak Rao’s murder was reportedly for a trivial reason between two communities over the tying of buntings. Rao, 28, was murdered in broad daylight at Surathkal’s Katipalla near Mangaluru on January 3, 2018.
Abdul Jaleel, 43, was murdered in Katipalla on December 24, 2022 Assailants murdered Jaleel in front of his shop in Surathkal.
