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Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 7: Setting a wrong precedent and disregarding the legal provisions, executive heads of Police and civil administration of kulgam districts have ignored the summons of the National Human Right Commission issued to them way back in 2013.
The NHRC summoned Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police Kulgam over assault on displaced Kashmiri Pandit family by land grabbers, in the month of July 2013, but after lapse of more than 22 months, the orders have not been compiled by the concerned officers.
The district administration was summoned under case number 235/9/o/2013, when NHRC issued summon to state government on July 1, 2013. According to case history, to get their encroached land back, internally displaced Kashmiri Pandit family from Kulgam district of Kashmir valley was assaulted by some miscreants, after failure of district administration to act against the assualters, the family approached to National Human Right Commission (NHRC), but things remained un-changed even after intervention of the Commission.
Vijay Raina, whose ancestral land was grabbed and was assaulted by his neighbor in village Chowgam of Kulgam district, had sought NHRC's intervention to get his land back. The district administration had already failed to respond to NHRC's notice issued to state government on July 1, 2013 to submit status report within eight weeks.
Earlier, the time frame given by NHRC expired on August 26, 2013 but state government has yet to respond even the after lapse of 26 weeks", the proceeding of case number 235/9/0/2013-FC, available with Early Times revealed, adding that on January 7, 2014, the Chairperson, NHRC Justice KG Balakrishnan, issued another reminder to Dy Commissioner, SP Kulgam directing him to submit the requisite reports within eight weeks. "The administration is disobeying, NHRC's direction, and has failed to reply commission's two notices", Vijay Raina said, adding that the commission instead of taking action against the district administration has given another eight weeks to file reply. There were numbers of similar complaints of the Kashmiri Pandit community un-settled for years together. |
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