Patna: Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Thursday announced Rs3 lakh compensation and a job in the Railways for the widow of Dharam Dev, the migrant labourer from Uttar Pradesh who was lynched to death in a local train in Maharashtra.
Lalu conveyed the decision on compensation and job to the dead man's brother Brahmadev, to whom he spoke over phone this morning.
Dharam Dev, a construction labourer, was severely beaten up in the Mumbai CST-bound train from Khopoli on October 28 by locals, who forced the victim occupying the window seat to vacate. He later succumbed to his injuries.
Earlier in the day, Lalu along with Union Minister Akhilesh Prasad Singh and Patna Lok Sabha member Ram Kripal Yadav, visited the residence of Rahul Raj, the youth from Patna who was shot dead in an encounter with the police in a Mumbai suburb while allegedly trying to hijack a bus brandishing a gun.
He assured all help to the bereaved family. The Railway Minister also slammed the reported remark of Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil in the wake of the encounter that 'those who use bullets will get bullets' and said the slain youth was not a hardened criminal or a terrorist to have been gunned down.
The police acted in undue haste in shooting him dead when the youth could have been persuaded to surrender, Lalu, who spent about half-an-hour with Rahul's family, said.
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