Patna,(BiharTimes): The Bihar Human Rights Commission on Tuesday directed the state government to pay, within three months compensation amount of around Rs 15 crore to 703 women of BPL families whose uterus were removed to gain incentive money under Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna four years ago.

According to BHRC directive Rs 2.50 lakh each should be paid to victims in the age group of 20-40 and Rs 1.50 lakh to those above 40 year.

It needs to be recalled that the BHRC had suo motu taken up the matter in 2012. The maximum number of cases were detected in Samastipur, Jamui, Rohtas, Begusarai, Katihar, Supual, Saran and Sitamarhi districts.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar had in October 2012 set up an expert committee to look into what is called the uterus scam after repeated queries by the BHRC.

The committee, which submitted its report to the BHRC in February last, found that uterus of women were removed in different parts of the state to get incentive under Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna for BPL families women.

It also found that in some cases money was passed without surgery and the amount distributed among the beneficiaries while in some other cases, operations were performed by unqualified doctors.

The media had then reported that some of the victims were even unmarried women.