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| NC-Congress coalition ignores inputs | | Kishtwar Violence | | Rustam
JAMMU, Dec 23: After re-induction in the Omar Abdullah’s Council of Ministers as MoS Home on Saturday amid strong protests outside the Governor's house, retired Justice R C Gandhi's house and at 18 other places in Jammu province, Sajjad Ahmad Kitchloo said that he had no input regarding apprehension of trouble in Kishtwar prior to August 9.
On August 9, a number of armed persons belonging to the majority community attacked members of the minority community, burned down their properties and ransacked and looted their shops and other business establishments after offering Eid prayers. The targeted violence that day also resulted in the gruesome killing of one innocent minority community youth. Significantly, Kitchloo was present
in the town when the hooligans and anti-social elements took the law of the land into their hands to terrorize the minority community and allegedly to "cause its migration from Kishtwar". Later, two persons belonging to the majority community also lost their lives.
"I did not have any information. I did not get any such input either. Had I received any such input, it would have been duly taken care of. I had been in Kishtwar for 10 days but I did not get any such communication or input," Kitchloo said, He made these observations in response to a media query as to why the state government did not act on time to avert the impending disaster when it already had information about the possibility of some untoward incident taking place in Kishtwar.
The assertion of Kitchloo appears untenable when viewed in the context of correspondence which took place between Superintendent of Police Kishtwar and Inspector General of Police Jammu zone between July 29, 2013 and August 5, 2013. The correspondence between the two clearly suggested that there was the apprehension of communal clash in Kishtwar and that the IGP had advised the Kishtwar SP to take necessary legal/preventive action against the miscreants who were vitiating the communal harmony and law & order in the district. The latter that the IGP Jammu zone wrote the SP Kishtwar is in public domain and it explains everything. It is a different story that the police after the incident did not acknowledge that they did have any input vis-à-vis possibility of communal violence in Kishtwar.
The fact of the matter is that the MoS Home was fully aware of all the developments. Had he acted to the best of his ability and in his capacity as MoS Home, things in Kishtwar would not have assumed alarming proportions. It is no wonder then that the entire minority community is up in arms against him and the so-called one-man commission of inquiry. |
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