High Court orders Rs 20 lakh relief for deceased Akali leader’s wife
High Court orders Rs 20 lakh relief for deceased Akali leader’s wife Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday ordered Rs 20 lakh compensation for the victim’s wife Harjit Kaur, more than two years after Akali leader Mukhjit Singh Mukha was killed by a police party. The state has already paid Rs 5 lakh in compensation. The remaining amount was directed to be paid within three months. The petitioner before Justice Rakesh kumar Jain had claimed that her husband aged 38 was killed by the police party of Amritsar district on June 16, 2015, by waylaying him and indiscriminatingly firing gunshots at him while in his car. He sustained 23 gunshot injuries, the court was told. News reports were also carried in leading newspapers quoting the Commissioner of Police and other cops as saying that the police had killed Mukha mistaking him for a gangster. -PTC News
