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ET REPORTER
Jammu, July 6: It was an interesting paradox in the summer capital city Srinagar. As a matter of sheer coincidence, the headless cabinet sub committee on Human Right finally got its convener after being in the cold for nearly a year as the same day the capital city observed a shut down to observe the alleged violations of human rights.
Exactly this day last year, a meeting of state cabinet had taken some historic decisions including creation of eight new districts and hike in the number of assembly constituencies. Formation of cabinet sub committee under the chairmanship of then Deputy Chief Miniser Muzaffar Hussain Baig was also one of the significant decisions this day last year.
The cabinet sub committee to screen the recommendations of Station Commission for Human Rights became headless nearly two months after its formation as its convenor and the then Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig had to resign from the government. Since then the committee never met to discuss the recommendations of the Human Rights Commission.
Full one year after this decision, the government today reconstituted the Cabinet sub-committee, headed by Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, to monitor the implementation of recommendations of the State Human Rights Commission.
While Mr Azad would be the convenor, the other members of the committee are Transport Minister Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen and Power Minister Nawang Rigzin Zora, according to a government order. It said the Home Department would service the Cabinet sub-committee.
The SHRC had repeatedly complained that the state government and other agencies were not implementing its recommendations.
Interestingly, unaware of the government decision, it was the issue of human rights violations which today rocked winter capital. The Srinagar city observed shut down there reports of incidents of violence between Police and agitators as people protested the alleged violations of human rights on the call given hardliner separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
Police had to fire warning shots in the air and used tear gas to disperse hundreds of people protesting against rights abuses by troops, police and witnesses said.
Over 700 protesters, shouting "Allah-hu-Akbar and down with Indian forces", gathered near the grand Jamia mosque in Srinagar after Friday prayers and threw stones at police, who fired in the air and used tear gas shells in response, witnesses said.
"Four people received minor injuries and at least a dozen protesters were detained," a police officer said.
The trouble came as a strike called by separatist leaders over the issue closed shops and businesses in the summer capital.
Streets in the city were almost deserted during the shutdown called by the region's hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
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