Rajbala’s kin turn down govt compensation

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