Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday gave a compensation cheque of ₹25 lakh and announced jobs to the families of six people who were killed in communal incidents since 2018.
The Chief Minister said the government would take steps to prevent such “unnatural deaths” in the State.
Deepak Rao was killed on January 3, 2018; Masood on July 19, 2022; Mohammed Fazil on July 28, 2022, Abdul Jalil on December 24, 2022; all from Dakshina Kannada; Idrish Pasha (Mandya) on March 31, 2023, and Shamir (Gadag) on January 17, 2022 were killed in different incidents.