Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 24: Scores of families of Kunan-Poshpora rape victims today staged protests against the State Government for its failure to rehabilitate rape victim families of 1991 committed by Army even after the State High Court recognized the State’s responsibility to explore the possibilities of payment of compensation.
The protesters said that Government was playing with their sentiments by deliberately delaying to provide justice to the victim families.
Shouting slogans against the Government, the protesters said that the successive Government was shielding culprits.
Abdul Ahad Dar, 60, an elderly man form the village said that last month their local MLA and State Law Minister, Mir Saifullah sent his own lawyer to fight the case against those responsible for the crime, but within a month the lawyer proved the Government agent to shield culprits.
“Mir Saifullah’s lawyer ditched us as he was unnecessarily diverting the case from last one month,” Dar said.
The dozens of other protesters said India too has been shielding the culprits involved into the heinous crime.
The villagers threatened the state to face severe consequences in future if Government didn’t take the issue seriously and compensate the victim families on priority basis.
The Division Bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice MM Kumar and Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar issued notice to the Government to file a report as to why decision adverse to petitioners has been taken and why compensation was denied to them.
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