Assuring all help to the riot victims, PWD Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav said that the Samajwadi Party Government would ensure punishment for the anti-social people who are behind Saharanpur riots.
“A high level team is holding inquiry into the Saharanpur riots and based on its report the riot victims would be given adequate compensation,” Yadav, who is also Irrigation and Water Resource Minister in the Samajwadi Party Government said in a statement issued here on Sunday.
Yadav, who is uncle of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, is heading a fact-finding team constituted by the Chief Minister. The team comprises of Shivakant Ojha, Arvind Singh Gope, Aashu Malki and Haji Ikram Qureshi. It went to Saharanpur and met the riot-hit people there.The team first went to gurdwara where they met Sikh people whose shops were set afire. They narrated as how the rioters tendered fire to their shops owned by Sikhs. Hindus and spared those owned by other section of the society.
President Guru Singh Sabha Balbir Singh Dheer told the delegation that they had given letters to SDM and other administrative officers but these were ignored.Yadav assured the members that officers will not longer harass them. A team comprising revenue officials have been constituted that would evaluate the loss of traders in the riot.
A group of people also met the delegation in Circuit house and they narrated their woes to the Minister.later, the delegation met Muslims at the residence of Shahar Kazi. The Muslims have a petition saying over 150 shops were gutted in the fire. They demanded financial assistance to the riot victims.Sikhs and Muslims clashed in Saharnpur over a piece of land in which three people were killed and curfew was imposed in part of the city. Night curfew is still on in the city.