“Govt violating right to life of Pandits”
Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, June 3: The Kashmiri Pandit Sangarash Samiti (KPSS) today sought intervention of the Chief Justice of the High Court for re-location of Hindu employees posted in Kashmir to outside Valley due to threat perception.
In a letter written to the Chief Justice, J&K and Ladakh, the KPSS president, Sanjay Tickoo stated that the Government has failed to protect the lives of the religious minorities in Kashmir and was not letting them leave the Valley. “It is a clear violation of the Right to life which is guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of India,” the letter said.
He said that the administration is playing with the lives of the religious minorities in Kashmir Valley for some vested interests which need to be investigated.
Tickoo urged the CJ to accept the representation in the Public Interest as, it said, the lives of the Religious Minorities is at stake due to the unethical and callous approach of the Government.
“The concerned officers/officials be summoned to explain which sort of policy and mechanism they have derived since 08.06.2020 when Ajay Pandita (Bharti) was killed in Anantnag District.”
It urged that the Government be directed to move/relocate Religious Minorities living in Kashmir outside the Valley and to investigate all the targeted killings which happened since June 2020. “All the officers and officials whose involvement or lapse is in the preliminary allegations be suspended without any further delay and an SIT be constituted to submit its report within stipulated time monitored by the Hon’ble High Court.”
The KPSS also sought investigation in all the transfers before 12.05.2022 which, it said, were done on the behest of some blue-eyed persons which indicates that the persons in the administration “were having a clear idea that the situation in Kashmir Valley is going to worsen which led to the killing of Religious Minorities in Kashmir Valley.”
In the letter, it has also been stated that apart from target killings, several threat posters and letters stand issued by the terrorist organization operating in Kashmir Valley in which, KPSS said, it has been clearly warned that “they will kill Religious Minorities specifically Kashmiri Pandits / Hindus who are living in Kashmir Valley.”
The Kashmir Pandits said that from May 12, 2022, they are on protest in Kashmir against the killings of the Religious Minorities in Kashmir Valley, “but the Government failed to protect these lives as on 31.05.2022 another employee from Religious Minority was killed by the terrorist in Kulgam District causing more fear and panic,” they said.
The letter underlined that the Kashmiri Pandits / Hindus want to leave Kashmir Valley and that the Government was not allowing them to leave, which, KPSS said, can be gathered from the press/news reports. “The government blocked the roads, and used electric currents to barricade the walls of the transit camps; the main doors of the transit camps are closed from outside with locks.
Interestingly, the KPSS has also alleged that some blue-eyed persons managed the posting of their kith and kin outside Kashmir despite the fact they were also appointed under PM’s Package which does not permit outside Kashmir Posting.
“It indicates that the Administration was aware that the situation in Kashmir was not conducive for the Religious Minorities but they still made them work in Kashmir Valley without any proper security cover.”
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