| Responding KPC's plea, NHRC directs State, Center to submit reports by April 17 | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 28: A court of National Human Right Commission headed by its chairman justice K G Balakrishenan at New Delhi today after accepting petition filed by Kashmiri Pandit Conference (KPC) President, Kundan Kashmiri, along with C L Gadoo, senior KP leader and Nancey Koul in regard to long pending demands and problems of internally displaced KP community directed the representatives of State and center government to submit their report about the issues raised in the said petition in the coming proceeding fixed on April 17
According to press statement issued from Kashmiri Pandit Conference (KPC), a delegation of KPC comprising President, Kundan Kashmiri, C L Gadoo, senior KP leader and Nancey Koul submitted a petition to the Court of National Human Right Commission headed by chairman justice K G Balakrishenan at New Delhi today and to intervene to get long pending demands and problems of internally displaced KP community redressed which both state and center Govts have failed to redress so for the last twenty five years in exile.
"The commission after accepting the petition submitted by KPC Chief Kundan Kashmiri, directed the representatives of State and center Govts to submit their report about the issues raised in the said petition in the coming proceeding fixed on April 17, the statement issued from New Delhi stated.
Meanwhile the respondents from state and center government present during the said proceedings included M K Bhardwaj, Deputy secretary Home, MHA, Govt of India, Smt Harvinder Kaur, Assistant Relief Commissioner Jammu, Advocate Skinder, representative of J&K Govt and representative of Resident Commissioner's office New Delhi.
The statement said the KPC Chief Kundan Kashmiri highlighted various demands of Kashmiri Pandit Community in exile including the rehabilitation and re- settlement of internally displaced KP,s to be made as per their wishes and aspirations, a CBI probe or Judicial Commission to be constituted to probe the genesis of genocides of Kashmiri Pandits during the insurgency in 1989-90 and onward, a white paper regarding the ongoing insurgency in the state of J&K, Protection and promotion of temples, shrines and other religious places of Kashmiri Hindus in the valley under law at par with religious institutions, places and properties of Muslims and Sikh communities of the J&K state.
The petitioner also submitted that displaced Kashmiri community was paid meager compensation of maximum rupees One Lakh while rupees five lakh was announced to paid to Sikh victims of 1984 incident. It also added to frame a rime bound process for Jobs under PM's package as announced by Prime of India in 2008. |
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