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| SC directs J&K Govt to recommend PoK detunes deportation | | | New Delhi Sep 28- The Division of the Supreme Court of India, in a landmark judgment, has directed the Jammu and Kashmir Government to pass fresh orders recommending the deportation of nine PoK detunes within 10 days after the Union Government counsels denied that they had received any such recommendation in the past.
This direction was passed by the Division Bench of the Apex Court consisting on JJ Mr. N Aggarwal and Mr. Naolekar in a writ petition filed by Prof Bhim Singh, Chairman of the State Legal Aid Committee and Supremo of JKNPP, alleging therein that PoK and Pakistan prisoners were languishing in several Indian jails on the orders of the Jammu and Kashmir Government.
Forcefully arguing the case for nearly over hundred minutes, Prof Singh said that the Union of India was not honest in their statement as letters of deportation were sent a year back by the state government. He said that some of the detunes had already spent 12 years or more in detention when the maximum sentence they would have earned in the offences, they were involved in, could not be more than two years.
According to a handout issued by B S Billowria Advocate and Secretary SLAC, the Supreme Court has accepted the argument of Prof Singh and directed the Union of India to take final action in this regard by November 30 this year. In case of 36 detunes, mentioned in the petition, the SC has fixed October 8 as the next day for hearing and directed Prof Singh to prepare a chart giving details about the trial courts where these detunes were facing trial for appropriate orders.
‘Describing the judgment as a historic one’, Prof Singh said ‘it is a great relief to thousands of under trials in the Indian jails who have outlived maximum period in jails as compared to the sentence for the offences’, the handout added.
Prof Singh, during the arguments, was assisted by B S Billowria, P V.Yogeswaran, Ritu Puri and Manzoor Ali.
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