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| HC reserves order on PIL in NIT row | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 13: A high court division bench of Chief Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar and Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur has reserved its order in a PIL filed by Prof Hari Om, seeking direction to respondents to ensure fool proof safety of students at NIT, Srinagar, sans J&K police to ensure freedom of celebration of national, religious functions and festivals. The petitioner also sought a direction to the respondents to ensure free and fearless movement of students of NIT, Srinagar. A direction was also sought to restrain respondents especially UGC chairman not to conduct any examination of students at NIT, Srinagar, till the time their safety and liberty was restored.
The bench, after hearing counsels for the petitioner, reserved orders.
The petition was filed keeping in view the interest of public at large and protect the legitimate interests of non-local students of NIT, Srinagar, who are bonafide Indian nationals. To leave them in the lurch or to the care of certain vested interests in and outside the UGC/HRD Ministry-run and managed institute would be the negation of justice system and India is a welfare state. The key role of the Government in a democratic country like India is protection and well-being of its citizens, irrespective of caste, colour, creed and regional dimension, which includes a peaceful and secure environment and a life free from any threat under whatever pretext. In a democracy like India and militant and terrorist-infested region like Kashmir, the government has to become more vigilant and take strict measures to safeguard the larger public interest by protecting the lives of its citizens and ensuring an environment that is conducive for pursuing their studies. It has been submitted in the PIL that after the rise of secessionism in Kashmir since 1987, the valley has virtually become unsafe for certain sections of society and that several lakh people professing a particular faith quit Kashmir in early 1990. The situation has not improved a bit since then. The situation has actually deteriorated with certain undesirable elements organizing anti-national events in parts of the valley on almost daily basis and creating in the NIT a situation that has forced over 1500 non-local students of the institute to get a foolproof security cover under the direct superintendence of central paramilitary forces, demand shifting of the institute out of the valley or leave their studies midway as they are mortally afraid of a threat to their life and limb. Systematic efforts have been made to destroy secular and democratic values, including brotherhood and peaceful co-existence by senseless violence fuelled by fanatics and extremists, who are aided, abetted and indoctrinated by forces across the India's borders with a view to annexing Kashmir and giving a particular type of orientation to the Kashmiri polity and society. Terrorism has taken away the lives of countless innocent men, women and children. Terrorists have indulged wantonly in abduction, rape, murder, arson, extortion and looting. Government officials, political leaders and workers, members of judiciary, print and electronic presspersons and prominent citizens have been threatened, attacked and even killed. Religious "codes of conduct" have been imposed on common people and there has been a large scale destruction of public and private property, including over 400 state-run and private schools and temples and shrines. The people of the minority community had to flee their homes in the valley and today they live like refugees in Jammu province and other parts of country. This is the one "fall-out" of the proxy-war that engulfed Kashmir and some of its adjoining areas in the late eighties. It is this well-calculated and ruthlessly planned onslaught on the innocents -- all in the name of so-called "Azadi" -- that constitutes the complete negation of the human rights. (JNF) |
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