Amarinder Singh: Slain rioters won’t get compensation

Chandigarh: While leaving it to the Centre to decide on ordering a probe into Friday’s Dera violence, Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh said on Sunday that no compensation would be given by his government to law breakers from his state who were killed in the Panchkula carnage in the wake of the court verdict against Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.

The CM said this while interacting with media persons during his tour of nearly a dozen areas in some of the sensitive districts in Malwa region of Punjab, which witnessed sporadic incidents of violence on Friday.

The chief minister said that it was for the Centre to decide whether a probe should be ordered into the collapse of law and order that led to the violence in Panchkula and other parts of Haryana, Punjab and Delhi on Friday.

He reiterated that the main cause of the trouble was allowing such a large crowd to gather in Panchkula ahead of the court verdict. This had led to the carnage in which, of the 24 bodies identified so far, 11 victims each were from Haryana and Punjab and one each from Rajasthan and Uttarakhand.

Nobody can or should be allowed to disturb the law and order of any state or region in the country, he added. Also, he added that the Haryana CM had made no attempt to get in touch with him even though the Punjab intelligence agencies were regularly providing their counterparts in Haryana with all inputs.