New Delhi May 29 (IANS) The Delhi government on Monday announced Rs 5 lakh compensation to the kin of an e-rickshaw driver who was lynched here for trying to stop two men from urinating in public.
The amount will be paid to the family of Ravinder Kumar from Lt. Governor/Chief Minister Relief Fund Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said.
Earlier Union Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu visited the family of Kumar and handed over a cheque of Rs 50 000 to his family.
Kumar 32 was beaten to death on Saturday by a group of 15 youths after he objected to two of them urinating near the GTB Nagar Metro station.
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Delhi government gives Rs 5 lakh to kin of lynched driver
