The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issues notices to the Lieutenant-Governor and the Police Commissioner on a petition moved by former Assistant Commissioner of Police S. S. Rathi, a convict in the 1997 Connaught Place shooting case, seeking payment of compassionate allowance to him.
Rathi is serving life sentence in the case involving the daylight shooting of two businessmen on March 31, 1997, after the policemen mistook them to be gangsters.
In his petition, the 61-year-old has pointed out that the Delhi Police have stopped his subsistence allowance “in violation of [his] fundamental rights” after the dismissal of his appeal in the case by the Supreme Court in 2011.
Rathi has sought grant of compassionate allowance to him under the Central Civil Service (Pension) Rules, saying he had passed the retirement age while undergoing the sentence and his family needed financial support.
He made representation to the Offices of the L-G and the Police Commissioner last month for grant of compassionate allowance, but they are yet to take a decision on the same.
