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Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family members of Anjali Ambiger (20), who was stabbed to death earlier this year in Hubballi.
On May 15, one Girish Sawanth had allegedly stabbed Anjali to death. Home Minister G Parameshwara, who visited Anjali’s house to console her family members, wrote to the chief minister on July 16 to regard the incident as a “special case” because of the poverty in the deceased’s household and to provide a compensation of Rs 5 lakh.
A letter by the chief minister’s joint secretary noted that the girl’s mother had passed away while her father had left the family and was missing after the final rites.
Since one of the deceased’s sisters is married, the government has decided to compensate her other two sisters, who are under the care of their maternal grandmother, the note added.