Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Sept 2: The Supreme Court on Friday allowed an NGO named ‘We The Citizens’ to approach the Union Government to submit its request seeking probe into the targeted killings during 1990 of Kashmiri Pandits and Sikhs in Jammu and Kashmir.
Justices BR Gavai and CT Ravikumar were on the bench that expressed reluctance to hear the case and instructed the petitioner to speak with the authorities. As a result, the petition was dismissed, giving the petitioner, NGO, permission to file a case before Central Government.
“Approach the government. Why should we hear it?.. Have you made representation to the Government of India?,” the court asked.
Following this, the court gave the petitioning NGO permission to lobby the government.
Additionally, the petition urged the government to order a census of the victims who were compelled to leave the state and now live in other regions of the nation.
The petitioners’ attorney testified at the hearing that there had been a “genocide of more than 1 lakh Hindus in Kashmir.” He based his research on Rahul Pandita’s book, “Our Moon Has Blood Clots,” which detailed first-hand accounts of murder, arson, and the emigration of Hindus and Sikhs from Kashmir.
He claimed that the book gave in-depth accounts of the incident and that the author was a victim of the attacks described in the book. The atrocities done against Pandits are detailed in a book written by Jagmohan, the Governor of J&K in 1990, which was also mentioned by him.
