The Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday handed over a cheque of Rs 10 lakh to its jawan Mohammed Anees after his house in North-east Delhi was burnt by the rioters.
The paramilitary has also pledged to re-build the damaged house of Anees and hand it over to him as a 'wedding gift', as he is scheduled to get married soon, a Border Security Force (BSF) spokesperson said.
The engineering and technical team of the force is already on job, the spokesperson said.
"Constable Mohammad Anees has been presented Rs 10 lakh today at BSF Headquarters for the immediate aid. D K Upadhyay, Inspector Genera,l BSF presented the cheque at the BSF Force Headquarters. Repairing of his burnt house is also being done by BSF," the BSF said.
Constable Anees, along with his father Mohammed Munis, met Upadhyay at the force headquarters here at CGO Complex at Lodhi Road where the jawan was handed over the cheque, the spokesperson said.
The welfare funds of the force were utilised and other resources were mobilised to assist their 29-year-old colleague whose house in Khajuri Khas area of the national capital was badly burnt and vandalised by rioting mobs when communal violence engulfed parts of northeast Delhi last week.
The communal riots in areas like Jaffrabad, Maujpur, Gokalpuri, Khajuri Khas, Bhajanpura and few others have left at least 46 people dead and over 200 injured.
Anees is presently posted at a BSF camp in Radhabari near West Bengal's Siliguri after he recently completed a stint in the anti-Naxal operations grid in Odisha.
Apart from the monetary relief, the BSF has also decided to post him to a unit in the national capital region so that he can take care of his family, officials said.
With a strength of about 2.5 lakh personnel, the BSF is primarily tasked to guard Indian frontiers with Pakistan and Bangladesh apart from deployments in a variety of roles related to internal security.