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| Home Deptt withdrawing 104 stone-pelting cases | | | Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 5: Working on the directions of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to grant amnesty to stone pelters on Eid, Home Department has proceeded to withdraw cases against youth in a phased manner.
After announcing amnesty for Stone pelters during recently concluded Assembly session, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti who also holds charge of Home Department has given a green signal to withdraw104 stone pelting cases involving 634 youth of different parts of state.
Sources said that Mehbooba Mufti has also called for expediting review of the cases of youth booked on charges of stone-pelting since 2008. Official sources said that a three-member Committee constituted by the Government vide order No: 355-Home of 2016 dated: 26-06-2016, in its recommendations submitted to the Chief Minister has proposed that the cases pertaining to the period between 2008 and 2014 be segregated and recommended for withdrawal in phased manner.
The committee Headed by Director General of Police, according to official sources comprised ADGP CID and Special Secretary Home as its members. Following the Directions of the Chief Minister to implement amnesty for Stone with letter and spirit, the Committee is mandated to review the cases registered against the youth for stone-pelting during the period 2008 and 2014.
Sources reveal that Committee has already taken up for review the cases pertaining to the period between 2008 and 2009 in the first phase and has accordingly recommended that 104 cases registered during this period involving 634 persons be withdrawn.
To give youth involved in stone pelting charges an opportunity to live a normal life, the parents of the accused persons and the accused youth themselves, against whom the cases are to be withdrawn according to recommendations framed in this regard shall have to give an undertaking that they will not indulge in any such activities in future.
The Committee as per official sources has however, made it clear that the persons involved in heinous crimes and offenses will be excluded from the review part.
Chief Minister who is committed to free Stone pelters as soon as possible has forwarded recommendations of the Committee to the Police for immediate follow-up action. Official source said that Committee has however sought three weeks time for review of the cases pertaining to the period between 2010 and 2014. The Chief Minister while chairing a high-level meeting on Monday regarding Reforms in Jammu and Kashmir's Prisons had called for expediting the process of taking a holistic review of the cases registered against the youth between 2008 and 2014 for stone-pelting charges.
She according to sources is keen to release all youth involved in stone pelting charges before Eid only and has accordingly said that the Committee constituted for the purpose should decide on merits how many of such cases can be withdrawn to give these young boys an opportunity to begin their lives afresh and carry along as productive citizens. |
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