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Gujarat riots: missing persons to be declared dead
With the expiry of the stipulated seven-year time, authorities are set to declare 228 persons missing in the 2002 post-Godhra riots dead. The move will take the death toll in the communal carnage to 1,180 from 952.We have prepared a list of missing people and sent it to the Revenue department, which would declare the missing persons dead, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Balwant Singh told PTI. Details will be sent to the district collectorates for the subsequent process. Ahmedabad Collector Harit Shukla said the final list of missing people is awaited from the police. Once we have the list, we will start the process of declaring them as dead, inform the civic authorities to prepare their death certificate and subsequently, compensation claims will be processed, he added. In the aftermath of large-scale communal carnage, 413 people had disappeared; 185 people were found later while 228 are missing. The 228 missing people also includes 24 children and 27 women. Posted by: john frum 2009-03-01 |
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