A public interest litigation (PIL) filed before the Gujarat High court here today alleged government apathy towards families of martyred soldiers from the state and demanded that land as well as petrol pumps be provided to them.
The PIL, filed by city-based lawyer Kishor Paul, has submitted that the government had utterly neglected families of the martyred soldiers.
Appearing as party-in-person, the petitioner also demanded that their families be provided land and petrol pumps.
Paul alleged that the government did not provide sufficuient compensation to families of martyred soldiers.
He cited the examples of two families of martyred soldiers from Mehsana and Ahmedabad in Gujarat who were not compensated with a piece of land or a petrol pump.
The PIL was heard by a division bench of the Gujarat High Court comprising Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala who have directed the petitioner to come up with more such cases within two weeks.
The High Court has scheduled the case for further hearing to August 28.
