Panun Kashmir seeks probe into incidents against minorities

An organisation of displaced Kashmiri pandits today demanded a judicial inquiry into communal incidents against minorities in Jammu and Kashmir and said that any charges of complicity of the state government in such cases should be probed.
"We demand a special investigation headed by a Supreme Court judge into the numerous incidents of communal harassment of Kashmiri Hindus living in the Valley.
"The investigation should also look into the causes of distress amongst the internally displaced people living in the Jagati camp of Jammu," Dr Ajay Chrungoo, chairman of the organisation Panun Kashmir, told reporters here today.
He further said that the complicity of the administration and political forces behind such incidents needed to be probed in depth so as to prevent any major human tragedy which seems to be awaiting the besieged returnees to Kashmir Valley.

"Not long after the communal incidents in Kishtwar, the transition camp at Haal (in Pulwama district), where KP employees have been housed by the state government, was subjected to stone pelting by miscreants," he alleged, adding that the authorities had tried to underplay the incident.
The frequent discontinuation of power and water supply in Jagati camp and delay in the distribution of rations, "seems part of the same attrition to which KPs are being subjected in the entire state", he said.
A fact-finding team from the association, which has been assessing the situation of KPs in the Valley and in the camps in Jammu, has found instances of obvious as well as subtle connivance between authorities and sections of the political class to unleash harassment on KPs, he said.