Sambhal , The family of a victim of the 1978 Sambhal riots on Thursday received the first land allotment certificate from the district administration under an initiative to rehabilitate families that left the district following the violence. Family of 1978 Sambhal riot victim gets first land allotment under rehabilitation drive Uttar Pradesh Minister J P S Rathore handed over the certificate for a 100-square-metre plot to the family of Ram Sharan Das Rastogi, who migrated from Sambhal in 1979 after the riots. The plot has been allotted in Alam Sarai Dehat village in Sambhal. The certificate was handed over after a ceremony involving prayers and Vedic rituals, in the presence of Moradabad Divisional Commissioner Anjaneya Kumar, District Magistrate Ankit Khandelwal and Superintendent of Police Krishna Kumar Vishnoi. The Sambhal riots took place on March 29, 1978. According family members and local accounts, several people were killed in the violence. Rastogi, a trader, was among those killed after his grocery shop was allegedly looted and set on fire. His family alleged that he was stabbed and …