Govt rejects claims of many riot victims to DDA flats

The Delhi government has rejected the claims of hundreds of riot victims for allotment of flats under the relief and rehabilitation programmes on the ground that no concrete proof was found to show they were residing in Delhi before and during the riots.

The government affidavit on the findings of the sub-divisional magistrates of the areas concerned were submitted on Thursday in the Delhi high court, which directed the people concerned to reply to the affidavit by August 21.

The division bench, consisting of Justice Devinder Gupta and Justice Dalveer Bhandari, accepting the affidavit filed by additional standing counsel Arvind K Nigam on behalf of the Delhi government, ordered that the reply should be filed on or before the next date of hearing before adjourning the case.

The petitions for allotment for Delhi Development Authority flats were filed by the Riots Victims Association and the National Sikh Association on behalf of more than 400 riot-affected families staying in resettlement colonies in various areas of Delhi.

The petition had demanded a direction from the court to the DDA for allotment and immediate handing over of flats to the riot victims on payment of one-fourth of the cost of the flat with the rest to be paid in easy instalments.

The Delhi government submitted that the documentary proof of residence in Delhi before the riots like death certificates, first information reports, ration card held prior to the riots etc were not supplied by any of the applicants.

Hence no documentary evidence was available to show whether the applicants were actually residing in Delhi before and during the 1984 riots.
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