Ladakh unrest: Leh Bar seeks Rs 1 crore each for firing victims; demands judicial probe

SRINAGAR: The Leh Bar Association on Wednesday demanded Rs 1-crore compensation each for the families of four people killed in the September 24 firing in Leh and called for an impartial judicial inquiry headed by a retired Supreme Court judge into the incident. “All four victims belonged to poor families. Three were young, and the fourth was an ex-serviceman who had fought for the country in the 1999 Kargil War. We expect the government to provide adequate compensation,” Bar president Mohammad Shafi Lassu said at a press conference in Leh. “In Ladakh’s history, this is the first such incident. The deceased belonged to underprivileged sections,” Lassu said, while seeking interim cash compensation along with a government job for one member of each of the four families. He said the Bar