Railway Minister Lalu Prasad announced Rs 3 lakh compensation and a job in the Railways for the widow of Dharam Dev, who was lynched to death in a local train in Maharashtra.
PATNA: Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Thursday announced Rs 3 lakh compensation and a job in the Railways for the widow of Dharam Dev, the migrant labourer from Uttar Pradesh who was lynched to death in a local train in Maharashtra.
Prasad conveyed the decision on compensation and job to the dead man's brother Brahmadev, to whom he spoke over phone this morning.
Dharam Dev, a construction labourer, was severely beaten up in the Mumbai CST-bound train from Khopoli on October 28 by locals, who forced the victim occupying the window seat to vacate. He later succumbed to his injuries.
Earlier in the day, Prasad along with Union Minister Akhilesh Prasad Singh and Patna Lok Sabha member Ram Kripal Yadav, visited the residence of Rahul Raj, the youth from Patna who was shot dead in an encounter with the police in a Mumbai suburb while allegedly trying to hijack a bus brandishing a gun.
He assured all help to the bereaved family.
The Railway Minister also slammed the reported remark of Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil in the wake of the encounter that 'those who use bullets will get bullets' and said the slain youth was not a hardened criminal or a terrorist to have been gunned down.
The police acted in undue haste in shooting him dead when the youth could have been persuaded to surrender, Prasad, who spent about half-an-hour with Rahul's family, said.
Referring to the anti-north Indian campaign by MNS in Maharasthra, Prasad criticised Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh saying "the Chief Minister went soft on MNS goondas and they were booked under sections relating to minor offences of the IPC. This emboldened them to launch even more violent attacks against Hindi speaking people."
Demanding that the perpetrators be tried for sedition, he said had they been booked under more serious charges, the flare up could have been avoided.
The RJD president deprecated terming the violence as a Bihari-Maharashtrian conflict saying, "it is only a bunch of goonda elements, which is involved in the attacks. Under the constitution, Biharis can study and earn a livelihood in Maharashtra and vice versa."
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