Another notice issued to DC, SP
Avinash Azad
JAMMU, Feb 13: District administration Kulgam has been evading NHRC directives of restoring the land of Kashmiri Pandit family which was illegally encroached and the family was assaulted and threatened when it exercised its claim on its property.
NHRC has issued fresh notices to Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police Kulgam seeking their reply within eight weeks after they failed to respond to Commission's earlier notices.
Vijay Raina, whose ancestral property was grabbed and was assaulted by his neighbor in village Chowgam of Kulgam district, had sought NHRC's intervention to get his land back. The district administration had already failed to respond to NHRC's notice issued 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 after the lapse of 26 weeks", the proceeding of case number 235/9/0/2013-FC, available with Early Times revealed, adding that on January 7, 2014, the Chairperson, NHRC Justice KG Balakrishnan, issued another reminder to Dy Commissioner and SP Kulgam directing them to submit the requisite reports within eight weeks.
"The administration has been totally disregarding toward, NHRC's direction, and has failed to file reply to commission on two notices", Vijay Raina said, adding that the commission has given another eight weeks time to file reply.
"I went to NHRC office, New Delhi and seek early settlement of my case I requested Commission's Registrar," he said, adding, "I was surprised to find that there were numbers of similar complaints of the Kashmiri Pandit community lying un-settled for years together. Seeking possessions of our ancestral land in Kashmir Valley, we met Revenue Minister many times but nothing has been done so far", he added. |
