LUCKNOW, Oct. 28 -- Expressing serious concern over the delay in the payment of compensation under a beneficial scheme to a minor rape survivor, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has ordered the state authorities to pay Rs.3 lakh compensation to her within three days.

It also ordered the concerned officials of the district steering committee (chaired by the district magistrate of Lakhimpur Kheri) tasked with distributing such compensation, to pay an additional Rs.2 lakh to her for the delays noticed in the case. "This additional payment has to be paid within 15 days," the court said.

It further said the state government is at liberty to deduct the additional Rs.2 lakh amount from the officials responsible for the delay in pa...