Package sought for '93 riot-hit

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday assured that he would look into the demand for a compensation package for the victims of city's 1992-93 riots on the lines of the relief provided to those affected by the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Former Maharashtra minister Naseem Khan stated this after a meeting with Singh on Thursday night.

"The Congress leader told reporters that he had handed over a memorandum to the Prime Minister on behalf of a delegation, stating that affected families who had lost their near and dear ones in the Mumbai riots be given compensation as was done in case of the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi," he said.

"Till date, there has been no movement to provide succor to the families of the riot victims," Khan, Congress MLA from Central Mumbai, said.

He said steps taken by Maharashtra's Congress-NCP Government like setting up special courts to deal with riot cases would help deliver justice to the victims.

"Action should be taken against all those indicted by the Srikrishna Commission (that probed the riots)," he added. Over 900 people were killed in the post-Babri Masjid demolition riots in the financial capital in December 1992-January 1993.