BHUBANESWAR:
The Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) on Tuesday directed the principal
secretaries of the Home Department and the School and Mass Education Department
of the State to give Rs 1 lakh each as compensation amount to two different
victims of human rights’ violation.
Following the hearing of two
different cases regarding the murder of Bharati Hansda of Gandamia village
under Kankadahada block in Dhenkanal district and death of a fifth-standard
girl student Swarnalata Rout of a primary school in Jajpur district, the
Commission has given the direction, said the OHRC sources.
It may be noted that Rout died
due to school beam collapsed, while Hansda was murdered by the villagers suspecting
her as witch.
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