Hyderabad, Sept. 22 -- Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday, September 22, instructed officials to release funds through the 'green channel' to pay compensation to victims of sexual assault. He stated that the government was responding to incidents of sexual assault on humanitarian grounds.

The CM took the decision during a meeting of the State-level Vigilance and Monitoring Committee on the implementation of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. "Perhaps, for the first time after the formation of the Telangana state, the State-level High-Power Vigilance and Monitoring Committee meeting on the Act was held under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister. The Committee reviewed the implementation of the Act, cases re...