Arrah: The group of CRPF jawan Mujahid Khan, who was martyred in the fear assault on a CRPF camp in Srinagar’s Karan Nagar, have declined to acknowledge the Rs 5 lakh remuneration reported to them by the Bihar government.
The family has expressed that the jawan kicked the bucket battling for his nation, not “by drinking alcohol or hooch.”
“We have denied the remuneration by Bihar government since it wasn’t respectable. Rs. 5 lakh remuneration was being given,” Chand Khan, sibling of CRPF jawan Mujahid Khan.
The family included that the remuneration was “disparaging” as Army work force who are martyred in assaults like these get Rs 11 lakh.
“Khan’s family has declined to acknowledge the check. They are of the view that when Army workforce executed in such episodes were given Rs 11 lakh ex gratia, the generously bring down measure of ex gratia for paramilitary power jawans was belittling”, Bhojpur District Magistrate Sanjiv Kumar said.
“We have kept in touch with the state home office about the grievance communicated by the individuals from the expired jawan. The measure of ex gratia is chosen by the division and just upon its endorsement can any change be affected,” Kumar included.
The check was given to Khan’s family in Bhojpur area’s Piro Tehsil where the killed CRPF constable’s last ceremonies were led with full police respects.
Khan was murdered in a gunbattle with aggressors who had assaulted the camp of the CRPF’s 23rd Battalion at Karan Nagar in Srinagar.
The Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) guaranteed obligation regarding the assault
Rashtriya Janata Dal pioneer and previous Bihar CM Tejashwi Yadav assaulted Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for “ignoring two overcome fighters from Bihar” who were murdered in a Kashmir assault and addressed him for not going to the jawans’ memorial service.
“Nor were their bodies got by a Minister nor did any Minister go to their last rituals,” Yadav said.