The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Odisha government to pay additional compensation to victims of the 2008 anti-Christian violence in Kandhamal.
A bench comprising Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice U.U. Lalit said the earlier compensation was inadequate.
The verdict came on a petition filed by Archbishop Rachel Cheenath relating to violence in Kandhamal district and other areas of the State.
Several districts in the State witnessed violence in 2008 after VHP member Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati was killed by unidentified assailants on August 23, 2007.
Members of the Christian community were attacked in the aftermath of the killing.
