Team Blitz India
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Government has decided to allot a house under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) scheme to Devika Rotawan, one of the youngest survivors of the 26/11 terror attacks.
This assurance has been given by the state Government to Bombay High Court.
The decision comes two weeks after the High Court came down heavily on the state for failing to consider Rotawan’s request for house allotment with “sensitivity and basic human rights”. Additional Government pleader told a Division Bench of Justices Girish Kulkarni and Firdosh Pooniwalla that the state’s housing department had decided to allot Rotawan a house under the EWS scheme either in any project of the MHADA (Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority) or SRA (Slum Rehabilitation Authority). The house would be allotted within six months, as per the state’s decision.
Rotawan was nine years old at the time of the terror attacks at multiple locations in the city in 2008. She had sought allotment of a house claiming that she had been suffering ever since the terror attacks in which she and her family members were injured.
The Government had initially contended that it had already paid compensation to Rotawan but the High Court last month said she was a victim of a terrorist attack and had been living her life with disabilities and poverty
