Expedite relief process for dalit victims of atrocities:

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today directed officials to expedite the process to provide relief to the members of scheduled castes who faced atrocities, through the corpus fund set up for the purpose.
Presiding over a meeting of the State Level Vigilance and Monitoring Committee here, the Chief Minister said the state government has already set up a corpus fund of Rs 2 crore to help such victims, an official release said.
While reviewing the Protection of Civil Rights Act, he asked the officers to publicise the legal aid scheme so that people could get financial assistance for defending civil cases.

Under this scheme, legal aid of Rs 11,000 was being given to the scheduled caste people for defending cases such as eviction from land and protection against exploitation by landlords, the release said.
He also reviewed the relief and rehabilitation facilities provided to the victims and prosecution of cases under the Act.
It was informed in the meeting that state government was taking all necessary steps to prevent and curb atrocities on the members of Scheduled Castes by enforcing the provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
Director General of Police, B S Sandhu informed that all the cases registered under the Act were investigated by a gazetted officer not below the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police.