CP fake encounter case: HC orders Rs 30 lakh as compensation

Directs union home ministry to pay compensation in six weeks

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Deevakar Anand | July 4, 2011



The Delhi high court on Monday ordered the union home ministry to pay Rs 15 lakh each to the families of Pradeep Goyal and Jagjit Singh who were killed in a fake encounter at Connaught Place (CP) in 1997.

The ministry has been directed to pay the compensation amount in six weeks.

A Delhi police team led by ACP S S Rathi had killed the two Gurgaon-based business men on March 31, 1997 mistaking them to be gangsters. Goyal and Singh were travelling from east Delhi to CP at the time.

Rathi and his subordinates had been sentenced to life-imprisonment in 2007 by a Delhi court, a decison later upheld by the high court in September 2009.
 

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