Bhubaneswar: The state government on Sunday lent a helping hand to a BSF jawan from Delhi whose house in the Khajuri Khas area of the national capital was damaged by rioters last week.
Chief minister Naveen Patnaik has sanctioned Rs 10 lakh for the repair of the house of 28-year-old jawan Mohammad Anees, who was posted in Maoist-hit Malkangiri district till the recent developments prompted the BSF to attach him to its HQ in Delhi. Naveen also spoke to the jawan over the phone and expressed regret at the violence.
“The chief minister consoled Anees and sanctioned Rs 10 lakh from the chief minister’s relief fund for him. Anees works in the BSF’s 9th battalion and was deployed in swabhiman anchal in Malkangiri,” a statement from the chief minister’s office said.
Anees expressed gratitude to the Odisha government. “A mob ransacked and set ablaze my house, which is located in a street in Khajuri Khas, on February 25. My father was alone in the three-storey home, as everyone else had gone to a relative’s place in Delhi,” he told TOI.
“On the morning of Tuesday, hundreds of armed miscreants attacked our house. My father begged them to go away, but to no avail. Luckily, my father escaped while the rioters torched our home by exploding gas cylinders,” said the jawan who joined the force in 2013.
Anees, who is to get married in April, visited his ravaged home on Sunday. He expects to be moved back soon to Malkangiri, where he has been working since September last year. Sources said he had earlier served three years in Jammu & Kashmir.
The BSF said the force had already started providing support to Anees. “We (BSF) have started repairing his house. Other help, including financial assistance, is being provided to the family,” BSF’s DIG in Delhi, Pushpendra Singh Rathore, told TOI over the phone. “In the wake of the unfortunate incident with Anees’s family, he has temporarily been attached to the BSF headquarters in Delhi. He may rejoin the Odisha unit when everything settles,” the DIG added.
Chief minister Naveen Patnaik has sanctioned Rs 10 lakh for the repair of the house of 28-year-old jawan Mohammad Anees, who was posted in Maoist-hit Malkangiri district till the recent developments prompted the BSF to attach him to its HQ in Delhi. Naveen also spoke to the jawan over the phone and expressed regret at the violence.
“The chief minister consoled Anees and sanctioned Rs 10 lakh from the chief minister’s relief fund for him. Anees works in the BSF’s 9th battalion and was deployed in swabhiman anchal in Malkangiri,” a statement from the chief minister’s office said.
Anees expressed gratitude to the Odisha government. “A mob ransacked and set ablaze my house, which is located in a street in Khajuri Khas, on February 25. My father was alone in the three-storey home, as everyone else had gone to a relative’s place in Delhi,” he told TOI.
“On the morning of Tuesday, hundreds of armed miscreants attacked our house. My father begged them to go away, but to no avail. Luckily, my father escaped while the rioters torched our home by exploding gas cylinders,” said the jawan who joined the force in 2013.
Anees, who is to get married in April, visited his ravaged home on Sunday. He expects to be moved back soon to Malkangiri, where he has been working since September last year. Sources said he had earlier served three years in Jammu & Kashmir.
The BSF said the force had already started providing support to Anees. “We (BSF) have started repairing his house. Other help, including financial assistance, is being provided to the family,” BSF’s DIG in Delhi, Pushpendra Singh Rathore, told TOI over the phone. “In the wake of the unfortunate incident with Anees’s family, he has temporarily been attached to the BSF headquarters in Delhi. He may rejoin the Odisha unit when everything settles,” the DIG added.
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