Mangaluru, Dec 21: Two days after police firing claimed two lives in Mangaluru, Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa today met family members of the victims, and expressed condolences.
Victim Nausheer’s brother and other family members, another victim Abdul Jaleel’s wife, children and others were taken to Circuit House where CM were present.
Later speaking to media persons, Yediyurappa described Thursday’s events as the one that no one is happy with in the way it turned out. He also said that had directed the deputy commissioner Sindhu Rupesh to provide compensation to families of victims as per law.
He said that government would order investigation into the violence during the Citizenship Amendment Act protests.
He claimed that police were forced to use force to deter the surging crowds. “They tried to storm a police station,” he said.
Asserting that the mayhem that protesters could have caused had they managed to gain access to the armoury at the police station is there for all to fathom, the CM said his meeting with the families of victims was to gain a sense of problems they faced following the incident.
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