Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 21: Terming Ranbir Panel Code as best law to deal with all cases including terror related issues, senior PDP leader and former Minister Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali today said that there is no need of extending the role of National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the Jammu & Kashmir and State Police is well capable to investigate terror issues.
It is pertinent to mention that in his address at the 7th Foundation Day of the NIA, Governor N N Vohra stated that the Union Home Ministry should take urgent steps to ensure that NIA’s legal framework is suitably modified to enable effective investigations in terror cases favouring inclusion of Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) under the purview of NIA Act.
Reacting on the statement, Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali said that J&K is a special category State under Article 370 of Indian Constitution and no central law is applicable to the State till rectification from State Legislature. Appreciating J&K Police for efficiently dealing terror issues, Zulfkar said that when J&K Police is doing excellent job under Ranbir Panel Code, there is no reason to underestimate our own police and law.
He further said that RPC was enacted in 1862 by the then Dogra Maharaja of the State and this law is working efficiently in this State for the last 154 years.
Pointing towards Armed Forces Special Power Act, he said that all central laws which were experimented in J&K did not fulfill the purpose and instead these laws added to miseries of the people of this trouble torn State. He said that as PDP has taken a stand on gradual revocation of AFSPA from this State, the question of extending new central law to this State does not arise.
“There is nothing bad in NIA Act and if there are some good provisions in the Act to deal terror issues, let these provisions be incorporated in Ranbir Panel Code”, he said, adding “when Indian Constitution itself has granted special status to this State, all of us must respect our Constitution and do not disturb or try to dilute this special status”.
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