Tripura firing incident: CM Biplab Deb announces compensation for injured protesters
Jan 19, 2019, 18:29 IST
| UNI | Agartala, Jan 19, 2019
About 10-days after the police unprovoked firing on anti-citizenship demonstrators in Madhabbari of eastern Agartala on Jan 8 last, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb today announced compensation of Rs one lakh to each person injured.
Earlier, the civil administration has also provided Rs 2,000 cash assistance as immediate relief to the victims from disaster relief fund.
Deb however, met the injured persons undergoing treatment in Agartala Govt Medical College (AGMC) in the morning alongwith tribal welfare minister Mevar Kumar Jamatia and interacted with the doctors about their treatment and assured to them of justice.