Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 28: Kashmiri Pandit Conference (KPC) President, Kundan Kashmiri, along with C L Gadoo, senior KP leader, Nancy Koul and Vijay Raina submitted a petition to the court of National Human Right Commission (NHRC) headed by its chairman Justice K G Balakrishnan at New Delhi.
In an appeal to Chairman and other members of the Commission they appealed them to intervene to get genuine and long pending demands and problems of internally displaced KP community accepted and redressed which both State and Centre Governments have failed to redress, so far, and allowed the displaced community to suffer in refugee camps, non-camps and in rented accommodations at Jammu, Delhi and other parts of the country from the last 25 years in exile.
The Commission after accepting the petition submitted by KPC chief Kundan Kashmiri, directed the representatives of State and Central Governments to submit their report about the issues raised in the petition in the coming proceeding fixed on April 17, 2015.
The representatives of State and Centre Government who were present during the proceedings were M K Bhardwaj, Deputy Secretary Home, MHA, Government of India, Harvinder Kaur, Assistant Relief Commissioner Jammu, Advocate Skinder, representative of J&K Government, one more representative of Resident Commissioner’s office New Delhi.
Some of the issues raised before the Commission through the petition by the KPC chief Kundan Kashmiri are as the rehabilitation and re- settlement of internally displaced KPs, a CBI probe or judicial commission to be constituted to probe the genesis of genocides of Kashmiri Pandits during the insurgency in 1989-90 and onward in the State of J&K, White Paper regarding the ongoing insurgency in the State of J&K of which Kashmiri Pandits were first and worst victims and other related issues and grievances of KPs.
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