Zee Media Bureau/Ritesh K Srivastava
New Delhi: Amid reports that Muzaffarnagar riots victims are forced to live in harsh condition after the Uttar Pradesh government closed all relief camps set up by it following communal riots in the region, the National Commission for Minorities send a notice to the state government on Friday.
According to reports, the minorities panel also sought an immediate response to its notice from the state government.
The development comes days after the state government ordered the closure of last remaining relief camp Loi in Muzaffarnagar and evicted those living there.
The state administration claimed that the victims were leaving the camps on their own. However, the victims disputed this view alleging that they were being “coerced” to leave.
Many of the evicted victims have taken refuge close to the camp. Out of desperation, some have built tents on fields, while others have shifted to mosques, animal sheds or moved in with relatives.
The administration has also cleared the Sanjhak camp, where 30 families were booked for illegally encroaching upon a Wakf graveyard. Around 600 persons have evacuated the camp.
The administration said the victims were being shifted to safer places to give them relief from the gripping cold. However, inmates were still dispersed around the camps, with neither compensation nor shelter.
Although 483 families have been evacuated in the Loi camp, on paper no camps exist in Muzaffarnagar even as some camps continue to function unofficially.
