Chandigarh, July 11 -- Taking cognizance of "arbitrary rejection" of a claim filed under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Parivar Suraksha Yojana (DAYALU) by a "deserving complainant", the Haryana Human Rights Commission (HHRC) has sought detailed reports from concerned authorities.

According to the HHRC spokesperson, the complainant had informed the Commission that his claim was rejected due to a mismatch in the age of his deceased father as recorded in the death certificate and the family ID. The complainant submitted that this discrepancy was a clerical error, which has since been rectified. Despite presenting the corrected death certificate, the authorities failed to reopen or reconsider the claim, the spokesperson said.

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