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| Inquiry Commission's report likely to demoralize minority community | | Kishtwar communal assault | | Neha
Jammu, Dec 21: Newspaper reports suggest that Justice R C Gandhi (Retd), who was appointed chairman of one-man commission of inquiry on August 24 to look into the circumstances under which Kishtwar and the adjoining areas witnessed attacks on the minority community after the Eid prayers on August 9, has submitted its report to the Jammu and Kashmir Government. One doesn't really know what lays embodied in the report, as it has not been made public. The State Government has not said anything about what the report has said and recommended. So, nothing definite conclusion could be drawn.
However, all the reports, without any exception, on Friday said that commission of inquiry has exonerated the then Minister of State for Home, Sajjad Ahmad Kitchloo for the riots in which three persons were killed and properties worth crores burned down by the (communal) elements in the majority community. They had enacted inhuman and anti-minority acts for full six hours as the curfew was not enforced, with the local law and order authorities in the district allegedly watching the gory incidents as mute spectators.
"The Gandhi commission in its interim report gives a clean chit to former MoS Home, slams different wings of the police, including the CID and administration, for non-cooperation. It has held the former DC, DIG, SP, police personnel on ground duty and Magistrates of violence-hit areas responsible for negligence of duty. It has recommended grilling of senior police officers for not registering an FIR into the case pertaining to attack on MoS Home Sajjad Ahmed Kitchloo. The report also stated that Kitchloo be treated as a victim and not accused," one report said on Friday. It also said that the "commission has advocated formations of mixed VDCs to strike a balance". (VDCs were created during the time of Governor K V Krishna Rao to create a sense of security among the minority communities in the terrorist-infested erstwhile Doda district and the parties like the BJP had played a very significant role in the formation of the VDCs. It is wrong to say that it was the National Conference which created the VDCs. The NC was not in power when these VDCs were created for the protection of the minority communities and their religious places.)
The issue is not whether Sajjad Ahmad Kitchloo was responsible one way or the other for what the rogue elements did to the minority community. The issue is whether the commission of inquiry has identified the culprits and recommended stringent legal action against them to produce a moral effect so that none in the future could indulge in the kind of acts the hooligans indulged in to frighten the minority community and facilitate the creation of Greater Kashmir. It is important to note that Cabinet Minister in Omar Abdullah-led coalition Government, Taj Mohi-ud-Din, had said at Kishtwar in the presence of the victims of fanaticism that what happened on August 9 was the handiwork of the votaries of Greater Kashmir. It would take some time to know what exactly has the report has said.
But one thing is clear as of now: The reports which appeared today in almost all the local dailies would shake the minority community's confidence in the system. Hence, it would be only desirable if the State Government clears public about the entire report so that the general public forms a definite view on what happened on August 9 and who did what and why? It is a must to create a sense of security in the minority community. It has become all the more imperative in the light of what the hooligans did at village Chanjey in Marwah tehsil of Kishtwar district on December 17. |
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