Patna, Feb. 3: Six years have passed but the widow of slain Munger superintendent of police K.C. Surendra Babu is yet to receive the compensation the Bihar government promised her.

Munger superintendent of police K.C. Surendra Babu was killed along with five other policemen in a landmine explosion triggered by Maoists near Bhimbandh in Munger on January 5, 2005.

While the three prime accused in Surendra Babu’s murder case were acquitted by a Munger court last year, K. Lakshmi, the widow of this 1997-batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre has not received the compensation the state government promised her.

Piqued over the alleged lackadaisical attitude of the Bihar government, Lakshmi shot off a letter to Bihar chief secretary Anup Mukherjee, a copy of which was also sent to home secretary Amir Subhani, on January 7 this year, drawing attention towards the promises made to her.

“Though I made several presentations to the top brass of the Bihar government, nothing has been done on this front. I am pained to bring to your notice again the promises that were made to my family by the then government,” she said in her letter, a copy of which is with The Telegraph.

According to the letter, she was promised a flat anywhere in India, expenses on her daughter Susmitha Valki’s education, special family pension with time-scale pay as and when the increments and promotions were due as if he was in service.

What has come as a rude shock for Lakshmi is the ex gratia amount paid to her at the time of her husband’s death. “I was given Rs 10 lakh as ex gratia. The same amount was paid to the next of kin of Surendra Babu’s bodyguards and the driver killed in the incident. The superintendent of police is entrusted with more responsibility and duties than a constable,” she said.

She demanded the government must enhance the sum from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 20 lakh considering the great responsibility thrust on the SP. Regarding the purchase of her flat, she said a sum of Rs 14 lakh was paid to the widow of IAS officer G. Krishnaiyya, who was killed by an irate mob on the outskirts of Muzaffarpur in 1994. Krishnaiyya was posted as the district magistrate of Gopalganj at the time of the incident.

“More than 15 years have passed since the IAS officer’s widow was handed over the amount for purchasing a flat, the rates have increased manifold. So I request to double the amount paid to the slain IAS officer’s widow,” the letter says.

Regarding the cost of her daughter Susmitha’s education, she said instead of reimbursing the school fee paid after every three months, she should be given a lumpsum amount of Rs 10 lakh to avoid from running from pillar to post, as it happened in the case of Krishnaiyya’s widow, the letter says.

Lakshmi’s letter revealed no action was taken to reimburse the school fee of her wards.