Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 5: A civil society delegation comprising noted intellectual and columnist Dr. Jitendra Singh, Human Rights activists Ashwani Chrangoo and Civil Rights activists Dineshwar Jamwal and Virender Raina, today called on Justic R.C. Gandhi in his office and handed him over an interim report on the Kishtwar violence of August 9.
Justice Gandhi, who is heading the Commission of inquiry into the Kishtwar incident, gave the civil society representatives a patient hearing and promised a fair probe. He assured, he would take due cognizance of the observations made in the report
The report is based on facts and figures recorded by a civil society subcommittee that visited Kishtwar soon after the incident. The report offers a chronology of events preceding the August 9 violence as well as the sequence of events that followed August 9. It also provides an estimate of the losses suffered by business establishments and damage caused to vehicles and other property.
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