’Cheque on Its Way,’ AAP Government Tells Family of Murdered Teen

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Aug 05, 2015:  She is the face of the Aam Aadmi Party government’s costly ads highlighting the need for better policing in Delhi. But the family of 19-year-old Meenakshi, who was stabbed to death on a road last month, says it has yet to receive Rs. 5 lakh compensation promised by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia had told the family that the "cheque is in the process of being delivered."

Officials told NDTV today that the money has been released from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund.

It is yet to reach the family, which was seen at the Delhi assembly on Monday, the day the government had called a special session to discuss Meenakshi’s murder and the need for a commission to handle crimes against women.

Meenakshi’s mother Usha told reporters then: "We have not so far received Rs. 5 lakh which CM Arvind Kejriwal announced when he came to our house after our daughter’s murder."

No one from the government had come to visit them either, her father Rajkumar told NDTV.

The couple said they were initially not allowed to enter the assembly premises, but were later allowed to sit in the visitors’ gallery to watch the proceedings. "We have come here because we were told that our complaint would be resolved here," said Usha.

Mr Kejriwal had visited the family on July 19, three days after Meenakshi was stabbed multiple times allegedly because she had complained against harassment by a man in the west Delhi neighbourhood.

Her murder was flagged by the AAP government as the reason why it should take over the Delhi Police, which currently reports to the central government. Mr Kejriwal described the police as a force without accountability.

The government was censured by the court last week for its mega ad campaigns, including one focusing on the murder. AAP, which Mr Kejriwal had recently declared was broke, told the court that it funded the ads.

A petition by Congress leader Ajay Maken had stated that the government spent 22 crores of taxpayers’ money in just two months.

 

Courtesy: NDTV