KA-CITIZENSHIP-EXGRATIA

Karna govt withdraws ex-gratia to kin of Mangaluru police
firing victims
Bengaluru, Dec 25 (PTI) The exgratia amount of Rs 10 lakh
each announced by the Karnataka government to the family of
two people killed in the police firing during anti-CAA
protests in Mangaluru has been withdrawn, Chief Minister B S
Yediyurappa said on Wednesday.
Soon after the incident which occurred on December 19,
the state government had announced an exgratia of Rs 10 lakh
to the next of kin of those killed in the firing.
"We have not decided yet to give the exgratia to the
family members of those killed in the police firing because
giving criminals exgratia is an unpardonable crime in itself.
Earlier, the government had decided to give them
compensation, but now we have withdrawn it," Yediyurappa told
reporters after a marathon meeting with the senior officials
of the Dakshina Kannada district.
The Chief Minister returned from Kerala on Tuesday night
and held a series of meetings with the officials in the night
as well as in the morning.
He said he has directed the police to identify the
hooligans who rioted on December 19, book cases against them
and initiate stringent action.
"It is now clear that it (Mangaluru riot) was a
conspiracy. People tried to barge into the armoury of the
police station. We are not going to spare anybody,"
Yediyurappa said.
Noting that the violence was a meticulous conspiracy, the
Chief Minister said stones hurled at police were brought in an
autorickshaw-trolley and dumped.
The government would ascertain the background of those
involved in arson and violence and arrest all those involved
in the crime, he added.
Slamming the opposition for making 'baseless' charges
against his government, Yediyurappa said, "When brain does not
function properly the opposition members talk like that."
"Those poor people don't have any other issue to raise, so
they give such irresponsible statements.
Evidences clearly show their (rioters) involvement in the
arson and loot," Yediyurappa said in reply to a query that the
opposition was blaming him and Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai
for the police firing.
The Chief Minister faced the ire of people at Kannur in
Kerala when his convoy was attacked by a group of people for
the police firing and his government's decision to go ahead
with the Citizenship (Amended) Act. PTI GMS
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