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Haryana government gives aid to 1984 riots victims

Aug 29, 2016 08:10 AM IST

GURGAON: After 32 years, the Garg Commission recommendations were implemented and in a ceremony organized by the Riots Action Committee, 42 of the 150 victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots were issued checks by the state government at the Sadar Bazar gurudwara on Sunday.

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The committee claimed the government has promised to compensate all the victims over the week.

As per official records, as many as 47 persons were killed in Gurgaon and 17 others, including two teenage girls, were killed in Pataudi on November 2, 1984. Victims recall that 300 houses were gutted in Gurgaon alone.

After repeated struggle with the government, the community said that they have finally been able to implement the recommendations of the Justice (retired) TP Garg Commission report, submitted on April 29, which was constituted to look into the incidents of violence in the Pataudi and Gurgaon districts.

“We cannot forget that experience as people were dragged out of their houses and beaten to death. There are around 10,000 Sikh families in Gurgaon who have been directly or indirectly affected by the 1984 riots,” said JP Singh Sahni, the vice-president of the committee.

Earlier, the victims had written to chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar seeking his intervention in the matter so that the Garg Commission recommendations are implemented.

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