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| SC to hear petition of police assault on Panthers leaders in 2007 | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 3: A division bench of Supreme Court of India, comprising Justices A K Patanaik and Swatanter Kumar, today fixed hearing of Panthers Party's petition against J&K police on April 17next. The Supreme Court made this order when K Venugopal, counsel for petitioners -- Anita Thakur, H C Jalmeria and P K Ganjoo -- who met police barbarism, assault and criminal attack on August 7, 2007, while they were leading from Talwara in Reasi to Delhi, seeking implementation of the Supreme Court order to provide relief to the migrants in accordance with the orders of the Supreme Court of India dated July, 2006.The Supreme Court had admitted the petition for hearing which was listed this day before the Supreme Court. K Venugopal and Bhim Singh appeared for the petitioners. The others who assisted included B S Billowria, Vijay Pratap Singh, Gaurav Kumar Bansal, Preeti Sirohi and D K Garg. The petitioners have demanded criminal action against senior police officers, including Director General of Police, DIGP, SSP Reasi, SHO Katra, district magistrate, Reasi, and ASI Gill. The Talwara migrants, numbering about 1,000, were marching peacefully from Reasi to Delhi seeking intervention of the Supreme Court of India for the implementation of SC order dated July, 2006, to provide relief to all Jammu migrants at par with the Kashmiri migrants. The migrants were assaulted by hundreds of armed police on the highway and lathicharged. Teargas shells were also fired which resulted in serious injuries to dozens of migrants. Anita Thakur was allegedly attacked, dragged for a kilometer on the stony road and later abused, beaten on the road and inside police station allegedly by SHO Samsher Singh Sambyal. Jalmeria was hospitalized in Ganga Ram Hospital and had become permanently handicapped whereas Anita Thakur had not yet recovered from the bones ailment and had been under continuous medical treatment. Supreme Court admitted the case for final hearing in 2010. |
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