Pulwama Attack Effects: SC gives order for protection of Kashmiris & minorities
This order was applicable for Centre and States to implement in the earliest
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday gave strict orders to the Centre and several states to take steps necessary for the protection of the Kashmiris, especially students, and minorities from the violence caused in the aftermath of the Pulwama Terror Attack of February 14.
The 10 states which received the order are Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Punjab and Maharashtra.
“The chief secretaries, the DGPs and the Delhi Police Commissioner are directed to take prompt and necessary action to prevent incidents of threat, assault, social boycott etc against Kashmiris and other minorities,” a bench led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said.
The petition filed by advocate Tariq Adeeb was taken up urgently as the first item for hearing even though it was numbered 51 in the day’s list of cases.
More than 700 Kashmiris, mostly comprising of students, workers and traders have returned to occupied Kashmir from the rest of India to escape reprisals for the attack, which has also ratcheted up regional tensions after India has alleged that those who planned the attacks had links with the Pakistani state — a charge that Islamabad has vigorously denied.
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