Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 3: An apex body of non-migrant Pandits has urged the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to direct the Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir authorities to relocate minorities from the Kashmir Valley in view of the growing threats from militants.
The Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti (KPSS) has also sought a High Court monitored Special Investigation Team to probe the targeted killings and submit a report within a stipulated time.
In a representation to the Chief Justice of the High Court, KPSS President Sanjay Tickoo said a process of rehabilitation was initiated by the Central government in 2020.
“In the process, Kashmiri migrants (Pandits/Hindus) were given jobs and accommodation so that they could come and stay in the Kashmir Valley. But in 2020 a new spree of targeted killings started and the fear has increased many fold among the members of the religious minorities living in the Kashmir Valley, including those who never left the Valley even after the 1990 mass migration,” the letter read.
“On the one hand, every member of the religious minority is under direct threat from the terrorists operating in Kashmir Valley, and on the other hand, the UT/Central Administration has failed to secure the life of religious minorities staying in Kashmir Valley,” it said.
The KPSS said that since June 2020 till May 31 this year, nearly 12 persons from the minority community were attacked out of which 11 died and one was severely injured.
The KPSS has appealed the Chief Justice to accept this representation in public interest. |
