The minister of state for home, Tusharkanti Behera, has questioned the integrity of some lawyers and police personnel, accusing them of abusing the Odisha victim compensation scheme 2017. Behera said on the sidelines of a programme organized by a private legal organization to help victims of crime to avail the benefits of government’s compensation schemethe minister said the legal sections in atrocity cases including the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes prevention of atrocities act are being used as a political tool to harass others. “In such cases some police officials help lawyers to prove false cases as true to enable the victims get compensation from the government in turn they get commission from the victims or their kin this should not happen,” Behera said.
