Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 5: Continuing with its endeavour to provide help to the NoKs of martyred and deceased police personnel, the Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh has sanctioned Rs 4.69 crore as special welfare relief and ex-gratia relief in favour of dependents and legal heirs of 21 such martyred and deceased police personnel/SPOs and two martyred CRPF personnel.
The special welfare relief of Rs 20 lakh each has been sanctioned in favour of dependents and legal heirs of martyred police personnel ASI Babu Ram, SgCt Fayaz Ahmad, Constable Ishfaq Ayoub and Constable Abdul Rashid.
Special welfare relief has also been sanctioned in favour of NoKs of those police personnel who expired while in service due to illness or accidents. These include SI Mohammad Ramzan, ASIs Abdul Majid and Ravi Singh, HCs Ghulam Mohi-ud-din, Tilak Raj, Shabir Ahmad and Abdul Rashid, SgCts Yeshpal Singh and Parshotam Lal, Constables Skinder Majeed, Tahir Ahmad and Rajesh Singh and Follower Abdul Rashid who expired during service due to health-related issues.
Rs 38 lakh each ex-gratia relief has been sanctioned in favour of NoKs of martyred HCs Anoop Singh and Mohammad Amin and Constable Mehraj-ud-din. They were martyred in terrorist violence.
Rs 5 lakh each has been sanctioned in favour of NoKs of martyred CRPF personnel HC/GD Kale Sunil of CRPF 182 Battalion and HC/GD Kuldeep Kumar Oraon of 118 Battalion CRPF. They were also martyred in terrorist violence.
Pertinent to mention rupees Rs 1 lakh each was already paid to the families and NoKs of personnel for performing the last rites as immediate relief by the concerned units. The financial assistance has been given out of Contributory Police Welfare Fund.
DGP has also sanctioned Rs 5 lakh out of Contributory Welfare Fund of SPOs as special relief in favour of NoKs of SPO Suhail Ahmad who died during the course of his engagement in the Police Organization. Out of these Rs 50,000 have been already paid to the families and NoKs for performing the last rites as immediate relief by the concerned unit.
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