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DNA EXCLUSIVE: Following 2008 Jaipur serial blasts, apathy kills hopes of martyred cops’ families in Rajasthan

A proposal for special compensation package for the families of 28 martyrs remains a far-fetched dream even after a decade

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Deepak Yadav, the martyred constable, is survived by parents and two sisters. His younger sister lost her husband to accident. (Right) Deepak’s father Lal Singh is seeking job on compassionate grounds for his younger sister.
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63-year-old Lal Singh Yadav is a retired government teacher who in the dusk of his life is fighting an uphill battle. A battle, which he hopes to win for his martyred son.

On the fateful night of 13th May 2008, Lal Singh lost his only son to the serial bomb blasts in Jaipur. His son, Deepak Yadav, was posted as a constable in the Kotwali police station.

“After hearing about the blast we hurried to Jaipur. By the time we arrived here my son had passed away,” Lal Singh who lives in Alwar told dna. He was my only son, he was unmarried and though there is a provision for job on compassionate grounds, no one in my family got the offer,” Lal Singh says.

Lal Singh’s case is not the only one where families of state police’s martyrs have not been provided with compensation. Between the years 2000 and 2010, a whopping twenty eight cops were martyred in the state. After all these years, however, subsequent state governments have failed to provide special package to the cops’ kin. 

In Jaipur itself, two other cops – Bharat Bhushan posted in Kotwali police station and Shahnawaz, posted in Manak Chowk police station – were martyred but the families are yet to receive any compensation.

With nearly a lakh personnel udner its wings, the Rajasthan Police is one of the premier state police forces in the country. Over the years it has achieved many distinctions and over the years several of its officers have been martyred while carrying out their duties. 

While cops get martyred at the hands of criminals or in violent incidents, the biggest setback is faced by the martyr’s family.  In-spite of the Rajasthan Police being an important institution, it appears that the state Home department and the government lack empathy with the martyrs’ families. The reason: for nearly past five years, the home department has not been able to take stand for the family of cops who were martyred in the line of duty.

The package – that includes an agricultural electric connection, a house and an educational scholarship costs the government only twenty lakh rupees per family. Moreover, during the time frame of ten years, there have been twenty eight martyrs whose family are to be given the benefit that would cost a total of 5.60 crore rupees to the state exchequer. However, the state could not even draw the guidelines, let alone sanctioning a package.

It all started in September 2013, when Chief secretary CK Mathew shot a letter to the then Director General of Police Harish Meena about special package not being given to families of martyrs before 2010. The DGP in response replied to the ACS Home. The letter accessed by DNA reads, “The state government has announced a special package for the family of police martyr fom 2010 onwards. It is worth noting here that cops who were martyred prior to 2010, a special package for the families of such 28 martyrs has not been announced as a result they feel left out and are demanding a special package which includes a house under MIG category of housing board, annual scholarship to children in school and colleges and agircultural electric connection totaling twenty lakh rupees.” The then DGP requested that an administrative and financial permission be provided over the issue.

However since 2013 when the demand was first raised, till now, no concrete development on the issue has taken place.

10 yrs on, Jaipur blast martyr’s kin hang by hope

Deepak Yadav, a constable in Kotwali police station lost his life to May 13 blasts 

Bharat Bhushan (Kotwali) and Shahnawaz (Manak Chowk) laid their lives in line of duty

Their families are running from pillar to post for compensation from the government

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