Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 22: Panun Kashmir (PK) delegation led by its president, Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo called on Chairman and Members of the State Human Rights Commission, here today and submitted a memorandum to them highlighting the plight of exiled Kashmiri Pandits and silence of State Government in providing justice to minorities in the State. The Chairman Political Affairs Committee PK, Virender Raina also accompanied Chrungoo.
The memorandum said Panun Kashmir had sent a delegation of its members to Kishtwar in 2013 after the unfortunate violence threat in August 2013. Later a delegation of the J&K Civil Society under the leadership of Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo went to Kishtwar in September 2013 and had an on the spot assessment and evaluation of the situation in Kishtwar after the carnage.
The delegation prepared a report on the situation and submitted a copy of it to the Justice R.C.Gandhi Commission constituted by the then Government for the purpose.
It said PK also submitted its point of view to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in this regard which took a number of steps thereafter.
The memorandum said Justice R.C.Gandhi Commission was submitted a detailed final report on the Kishtwar situation to the Government of Jammu and Kashmir in the year 2015. The report besides giving details of the situation was expected to recommend some compensatory welfare measures for the violence hit people of Jammu & Kashmir.
The then Government of Jammu & Kashmir State under the Chief Ministership of Mufti Mohd. Sayed and later Mehbooba Mufti did not take cognizance of the Justice Gandhi report. Consequently the report could not see the light of the day till date and neither the recommendations were implemented by the Government, it added.
The PK has demanded that the Government may be directed to make the report of the Justice Gandhi Commission public and also implement the recommendations carried in the above said report.
It said Panun Kashmir fought a long battle in the case of genocide and human rights violations at the NHRC. The Commission’s Court in June 1999 said in its decision that “acts akin to genocide have been committed against the Kashmiri Pandit community and a genocide type design may exist against them.” The memorandum said that it was expected that the Governments would institute a formal inquiry into the genocidal action, human rights violations and other excesses committed against the community and book the culprits as per law.
Since the Government has failed all along to take any action in this regard till date, “we demand that the Government be directed to institute a ‘Special Crimes Tribunal’ to go into the excesses committed against the minority indigenous people of the Kashmir Valley -the Kashmiri Pandits and the other minorities like Sikh community of Kashmir.
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