Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 16: Admo-nishing the atrocities doled out to the Indians languishing in the Pakistan jails, Rajesh Padgotra, provincial president of J&K NPP along with the families of the victims staged a massive protest demonstration against the Government of Pakistan outside Press Club, Jammu today.
Addressing the agitating party workers Mr Padgotra revealed that on May 11, 2014, Sohan Lal Choudhary, son of Garu Ram Choudhary, a resident of Gulabgarh, Suchetgarh, who was mentally unstable inadvertently crossed the zero line while working in the fields. He further disclosed that the villager was taken into custody by the Pakistani Rangers whose whereabouts were still unknown and lambasted the BJP for grossly failing to negotiate with the Government of Pakistan to facilitate his return. Mr Padgotra said that there were many Indians like Sohan Lal who had been languishing in Pak jails whose families were running from pillar to post with all efforts in vain including Tilak Raj from Miran Sahib, Kuldeep Singh from Billawar, Om Prakash, Harbans Lal, Raj Kumar besides others.
Expressing resentment over the Central and State Governments for not taking the case of Chamail Singh seriously, Mr Padgotra recalled that the convicted Indian who was a resident of village Pargwal in Akhnoor was brutally murdered in Kot Lakhpat jail in Pakistan and his family was still struggling for justice.
The NPP leader maintained that recently Kripal Singh, a resident of Amritsar was also brutally murdered in Pakistan jail whose vital organs were removed from his body. He said that Punjab Government had accorded him the status of a martyr and provided compensation of Rs 25 lakhs to his family. Sarabjeet Singh’s family was given compensation for Rs 1 crore 25 lakh by Punjab Government. He lamented that BJP led Governments in the Centre and the State had failed to accord the status of a martyr to Chamail Singh and paid no heed to pay a single penny to the family of the deceased so far.
Others who were present included Khajur Singh, Shanker Singh Chib, Neeraj Gupta, Satvir Manhas, Rakesh Gupta, Joginder Dabgotra, Rakesh Verma and others.
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