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| `Hari Singh did not believe in preventive detention laws’ | | Dogra regime v/s `democratic’ rule- I | |
Comparative Study
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 14: The Dogra rule has been widely discussed in the Legislative Assembly during the past one week. Most of the legislators from Kashmir have accused the erstwhile rulers of exploiting and persecuting Kashmiris. Their counterparts from Jammu have denied thee allegations as baseless. The truth, however, has not come to the fore.
A Srinagar based journalist, interested in history of Kashmir has interviewed one hundred persons who fought the autocratic rulers from 1931 to 1947. A comparative (analysis based on these interviews) of Dogra regime and the present rule brings some interesting facts to the surface.
Hari Singh in particular did not believe in exiling people. Two men including a renowned businessman, Saad-ud-Din Shawl were exiled by the King in 1924 when they submitted a memorandum to the then Viceroy on his Srinagar visit. The Viceroy handed over the memorandum to king who exiled the leaders. However, Hari Singh immediately after ascending to the Throne pardoned them and allowed them to come back.
On the contrary when Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah assumed office of the Emergency Administrator in 1947, he externed all those who dared to oppose him. Some of them have not been allowed to return to their homeland even now. The process of externing dissidents continued up to Sadiq’s regime.
Hari Singh did not believe in fake encounters, enforced disappearances and extra-judicial executions. During Hari Singh’s rule not a single case of custodial killing, enforced disappearance or fake encounter has been reported. But during the `democratic rule’ around 10,000 persons have been subjected to enforced disappearance. Fake encounters and detention without trial have become the order of the day.
Surprisingly there was no preventive detention law during the Dogra regime. The preventive detention laws (Defense of India Rules) were extended to the state of Jammu Kashmir in ` democratic rule’. This is enough proof that Maharaja Hari Singh did not want to curtail the freedom of his subjects. Of course the dissidents were arrested from time to time but under ordinary penal laws.
(to be continued)
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