| Court directs SSP Crime Branch to register case | | Non-resident gets PRC, Govt job | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 17: A non-resident of Jammu and Kashmir has managed to obtain a Permanent Resident Certificate (PRC) and a Government job as well, prompting a local court to direct the police's Crime Branch to register a case.
According to a complaint lodged with the Court of Special Municipal Mobile Magistrate Jammu, the accused originally hails from village Malagarpur, tehsil Sailkot (West Pakistan) and after Partition his family settled in Ban Sultan, Miran Sahib, Jammu.
In 1927, Maharaja Hari Singh issued a Royal Decree introducing the State Subject Law, which now has been renamed as Permanent Resident Certificate. The Maharaja promulgated the law to protect the distinct ethnic identity of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Under the PRC Act, every permanent resident of the state as defined in the constitution of J&K is entitled for a PRC on the basis of which he or she can seek admission in professional colleges, seek government employment, purchase property within the state. Non-state subjects are not entitled for these benefits.
Hearing the complainant, the court on August 7 directed SSP Crime Branch, Jammu, to register case against the accused.
"The State Subjects Certificates are issued from the office of Deputy Commissioner Jammu. The allegations made in the complaint are very serious in nature which require thorough probe, and therefore I deem it expedient to direct SSP Crime Branch Jammu to get a case registered in the matter and investigate the same under law," the court said. |
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