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| Govt fails to respond NHRC after lapse of five months | | Assault on migrant KPs over land mutation case | | Avinash Azad
Jammu, Jan 19: Showing total disregard to directions issued by National Human Right Commission (NHRC) to J&K Government for submission of reply regarding assault on Migrant Kashmiri Pandit family at Kulgam on June 20, 2013 the State Government of Jammu and Kashmir has failed to respond the commission even after lapse five months.
Taking cognizance of the report appearing in Early Times on June 20, 2013 over assault on a Kashmiri Pandit family in village Chowgam by a group of locals, the NHRC had issued directions to state government on July 1, 2013 to submit status report within eight weeks. "The time frame given by NHRC expired on August 26, 2013 but state government has yet to respond even the after lapse of 26 weeks", the proceeding of case available with Early Times reveals. It said that Tushar Mattoo had urged the Commission to intervene in the matter of assault.
"The media report alleges that one Vijay Raina and his family members were attacked by a group of locals led by Mohd Saleem Ganai and their relatives when they visited their ancestral property in Chowgam Village to sprinkle pesticides to the apple orchard on 19.6.2013", the complaint filed before the NHRC reveals. It further said that the attackers also warned them to leave the area or else they would have to face serious consequences.
"To save themselves from the clutches of the attackers, Vijay Raina and his family members took refuge in Police Station Qazigund. The police have also registered a case against Ganai family. It has also been reported that Ganai who have encroached upon their land warned Vijay Raina of serious consequences if he tried to cultivate the land as he had already migrated from the valley 25 years back and have no right to return to the valley and cultivate the land", the report read.
It further said that the Commission on July 1, 2013 took cognizance of the matter and issued notice to the Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Polic, Kulgam, J&K to submit a report in the matter within two weeks."However, the requisite reports have not been received from Deputy Commissioner and SP, Kulgam, J&K, so far. Issue reminder to Deputy Commissioner, Kulgam and SP, Kulgam directing them to submit the required reports within eight weeks that is on January 7, 2014 at 11.00 am", the report divulges.
Astonishingly, the official website of NHRC nhrc.nic.in reveals on January 19, 2014 that response from concerned authority is awaited. |
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