BSF gives Rs10 lakh to jawan whose house was torched

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 2

The Border Scurity Force (BSF) today handed over a cheque of Rs 10 lakh to its jawan Mohammed Anees after his house in northeast Delhi was burnt by rioters.

The BSF has also made a pledge to rebuild the house of the jawan and hand it over to him as a “wedding gift”, as he is scheduled to get married soon, a BSF spokesperson said, adding that the engineering and technical team of the force is already on job.

“Constable Anees along with his father Mohammed Munis met Inspector General D K Upadhyay at the force headquarters here on Lodhi Road. The jawan was handed over a cheque of Rs 10 lakh,” the spokesperson said.

Another senior official said the welfare funds of the force were utilised and other resources were mobilised to assist their 29-year-old colleague whose house in Khajuri Khas area of the national capital was badly burnt and vandalised by rioting mobs when communal violence engulfed parts of northeast Delhi last week.

Anees is posted at a BSF camp in Radhabari near West Bengal’s Siliguri after he recently completed a stint in the anti-Naxal operations grid in Odisha. The BSF has also decided to post to him to a unit in the national capital region so that he can take care of his family.