[Reader-list] Rs. 4-lakh solatium for fake encounter

[Rajendra Bhat Uppinangadi]

Dear all,
no amount of wealth can bring back the life of dead,
though lakhs of compensation is paid for family members of the flight crash
victims, they earned the living with much higher earnings in foreign lands,
the families still feel the void of sudden unnatural deaths of the family
members, same as victims of terror acts.157 deaths of flight to mangalore
from Dubai is a grim reminder that material wealth though important, it can
not bring back the lives and happiness, with squirmishes for the fair share
amongst the survivors.!
regards,
rajen
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Rs 4 Lakhs? That is ridiculous.
>
> 20 year old Vikram "was eking out a living as a daily wage earner"
>
> If one were to take the Legal Minimum Daily Rs 100 x 25 days per month x 12
> months x 40 years of wage earning capacity lost = Rs 12 Lakhs on basis of
> those elements alone
>
> Into that should be factored a notional Inflation Rate + prospects for
> Vikram improving his earning capacity with time + Lump-Sum for anguish and
> trauma.
>
> Should have been more like Rs 40 Lakhs instead of Rs 4 Lakhs.
>
> Kshmendra
>
>
> --- On Sat, 7/17/10, Subhash <subhachops at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Subhash <subhachops at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Rs. 4-lakh solatium for fake encounter
> To: "reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Saturday, July 17, 2010, 9:42 AM
>
>
> Rs. 4-lakh solatium for fake encounter
>
> Iboyaima Laithangbam
>
> IMPHAL: Ruling that the killing of a young man in a Manipur village by
> Assam Rifles in 2006 was a fake encounter, the Gauhati High Court has
> ordered the Union government to pay his wife a solatium of Rs. 4 lakh.
>
> In her writ petition, Sagolshem Latani (20) said the police had
> arrested Sagolshem Vikram in 2004 on the charge that he was a militant
> of the outlawed People's Liberation Army. He was detained under the
> National Security Act. After his release, he married her and was eking
> out a living as a daily wage earner at Nongbrang village in Thoubal
> district. The petitioner said that on the night of October 3, 2006,
> troopers of 34 Assam Rifles raided their house and whisked away Vikram
> (22) though no gun or incriminating material was found. Hardly 50
> metres from the house the troopers gunned him down.
>
> The official version was that he was killed in an encounter and that
> one pistol was recovered from him.
>
> http://www.hindu.com/2010/07/17/stories/2010071756321300.htm
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Rajen.