The Supreme Court today ticked off the West Bengal Government for dilly-dallying payment of compensation to those injured in the Nandigram firing incident in March 2007. It also directed the state government to comply with its order. The apex court made it clear that it had only stayed the Calcutta High Court order directing the CBI to initiate the criminal proceedings against the police officials allegedly responsible for the firing in which 14 persons were killed.A Bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and A K Patnaik said, despite the order directing the state to pay compensation as regard to those injured, the state has not paid compensation. It brushed aside the contention of the West Bengal Government that those injured while hurling bombs at the police have been kept out of the purview of compensation. Earlier, the High Court had directed the West Bengal Government to pay a uniform compensation of 5 lakh rupees to families of each of the 14 persons killed and 2 lakh and 1 lakh rupees to those raped and injured. Meanwhile, the apex court fixed December 2 to hear the application moved by the CBI seeking its direction for vacating the stay granted by it on initiating criminal proceedings against the erring police officials.