Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 3: In Public Interest Litigation filed by Dharminder Paul Singh Raina seeking direction to respondents to provide specialized treatment to the border firing victims and create adequate preventive and healthcare infrastructure and facilities for the patients, a Division Bench of State High Court Comprising Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Tashi Rabstan after hearing Adv Summit Nayyar for the PIL, observed that Raj Kumar, Senior Assistant, Health and Medical Education Department, who is present in the Court, submitted that the objections were ready with him.
Upon this Division Bench directed him to file the objections within two weeks and also directed counsel for the PIL to file response thereto before the next date.
In the PIL it has been submitted that the crisis like situation prevailed on the borders with dwellers who were staying in the relief camps , deprived of food, electicity and water while the injured were finding it hard to get ambulances for shifting the firing victims to hospitals , leading to massive protests in Hiranagar as well in Government Medical College, Jammu.
It is also submitted that Pakistani continued their brutality by targeting innocent civilians in all three border districts of Jammu, Samba and Kathua since killing five civilians including a woman and an eight year old child and injuring 26 others, fifty thousand people stayed away from their houses in border areas of 5 sectors including RS Pura , Arnia , Ramgarh , Samba, and Hiranagar which were heavily shelled by the enemy. |
