Muzaffarnagar Relief Camps

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  Muzaffarnagar Riots Case: BJP Legislator Sangeet Som Surrenders, Gets Bail

  BJP legislator Sangeet Som today surrendered before a local court after a bailable warrant was issued against him in connection with a 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots case in Uttar Pradesh.

• Those in Muzaffarnagar relief camps are 'trespassers', can't vote: riot-accused BJP leader

  A controversial BJP legislator and the party's candidate from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh for the general elections, Hukum Singh, has said those still living in relief camps set up after the Muzaffarnagar riots last year are "trespassers" and have no legal riot to vote.

• Muzaffarnagar: Newborn baby dies in relief camp

  A three-day old baby girl died due to illness at a relief camp for riot victims at Malakpur village in Shamli district.

• Muzaffarnagar riots: six months on, 'missing' accused still roam free

  It's been over six months since the Muzaffarnagar riots, one of the most violent clashes in recent times, left nearly 60 people dead and more than forty thousand homeless, but a majority of the accused are yet to be arrested.

• Muzaffarnagar: Girl dies of pneumonia in relief camp

  A four-year-old girl has succumbed to pneumonia at a private relief camp in neighbouring Shamli district, officials said today.

• Muzaffarnagar: Five-month-old baby dies in relief camp

  A five-month-old baby girl has succumbed to pneumonia in a relief camp at Malakpur village in Shamli district in Muzaffarnagar.

• UP ministers cut short foreign visit amid row over Muzaffarnagar relief camps

  The 17-member contingent of Uttar Pradesh ministers and MLAs, who were on a 18-day junket to seven countries, have been forced to cut short their visit in view of the popular anger over their insensitiveness at a time when thousands of Muzaffarnagar riot victims were still battling it out in the cold in relief camps. They will be returning to Luckn...

• 'People die in palaces too,' says UP minister on deaths in Muzaffarnagar relief camps

  Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has so far staunchly fought off the severe criticism his government has faced for holding a grand festival in his ancestral village Saifai when thousands at relief camps in riot-hit Muzaffarnagar are struggling in the cold. However, a bizarre remark by one of his ministers today has made Mr Yadav's task t...

• Arrest warrant against relief camp organiser in Muzaffarnagar

  The allegation against Kanwar Hassan, a local Bahujan Samaj Party or BSP leader, is that he did not allow the camps to be closed down.

• Protest in Delhi against Muzaffarnagar riots victims' eviction from camps

  Rights groups in Delhi on Thursday held a protest against the Uttar Pradesh government's forcible eviction of victims of the Muzaffaranagar riots from relief camps where they had sought shelter.

• 'Won't go back to village where accused walk free', says Muzaffarnagar riots victim

  Saddam's 55-year-old uncle was killed in the violence. He says he will never return to the village, where accused walk free. "I have not retuned there but I went to Budhana village close by. I saw them there."

• 'All we have is this tent', say Muzaffarnagar riot victims shifted out of relief camp

  More than three months after communal riots tore through the western Uttar Pradesh town of Muzaffarnagar, uncertainty still continues for many who were forced to leave their homes and move to relief camps set up by the government.

• Muzaffarnagar: Uttar Pradesh government orders relief camps to shut in 3-4 days

  Top Uttar Pradesh bureaucrats are visiting relief camps in Muzaffarnagar this morning to try and convince people to go back home so that the camps, set up to shelter those made homeless by the communal riots in September, can now be dismantled. Officials made similar visits in the neighbouring Shamli district yesterday. They have allegedly asked or...

• Muzaffarnagar: relief camp not safe, persuading victims to leave, says top official

  Over 50 families, evicted by the Uttar Pradesh government from a relief camp in Muzaffarnagar, have been forced to live at a bus stand with no electricity, water or toilet.

• Government forcing us out of relief camp, allege Muzaffarnagar riot victims

  It housed over 300 families at one point of time, but now has only 70-odd families left. The Loi relief camp in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district has witnessed a dramatic exodus over the past 48 hours.