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NHRC asks Centre, J&K for reports on Pulwama massacre
New Delhi, Mar 26: Expressing concern and `deep anguish` over the killing of 24 Kashmiri Pandits despite the presence of a police picket in the vicinity of the site of attack in the valley, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) today directed the Centre and J&K government to furnish `factual reports` within one week.
The NHRC, which took suo motu cognizance of the reports of gunning down of 24 Pandits, has called upon the Union home Secretary and State Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir to furnish the commission with "factual reports" regarding the killings, the commission said in an order.
The incident was testimony to the depravity of those who are engaged in terrorist acts, the NHRC said.
"This attack is doubly reprehensible, as it had taken place at a time when fresh efforts were underway to bring peace and reconsiliation to the state, objectives to which the terrorists are fundamentally opposed," the commission said.
Considering the reports that the victims were murdered
despite the presence of police picket in the vicinity, NHRC
has thus asked the Centre and the state government that they
should, in their reports, also indicate inter-alia, such
measures as may have been taken, or planned to be taken to
enhance the security of the affected community and to
ameliorate the suffering of the families of those who have
been killed or traumatised.
NHRC have also received a petition by 'Kashmiri Samiti',
a body of displaced Kashmiri people, seeking commission's
intervention in respect of the tragic killings. Copy of the
plea has been forwarded to both the Centre and the state
government.
Bureau Report