Srinagar: In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), High Court Bar Association (HCBA) has expressed serious concern over the plight of Kashmiri political detainees lodged in different jails of the territory and India.
The HCBA in a statement said that hundreds of people, booked under draconian law Public Safety Act (PSA), have been lodged hundreds and thousands of miles away from their homes. It appealed to the National Human Rights Commission of India and International Committee of the Red Cross to intervene and shift these detainees back to the jail nearest to their homes.
The faraway lodgement in outside jails has resulted in grave injustice as they are deprived of legal consultation. The HCBA also expressed concern over the huge pendency of habeas corpus petitions for want of hearing before the benches.
The Bar Association took up time and again this grave concern with the present Chief Justice of the High Court with the request to ensure fast track proceedings in liberty matters but didn’t find the desired response to the request.
Indian troops martyred 146 Kashmiri youth and arrested over 800 this year while over 96,100 Kashmiris, mostly youth, had fallen to the Indian bullets since 1989. Modi-led Indian regime must understand that no amount of brutalization, military might and anti-Kashmiri policy will be able to subjugate the Kashmiris. India can kill the Kashmiri youth but it cannot defeat their stand and sentiment for Kashmir resolution.
History is witness to the fact that freedom movements and political future of the people cannot be suppressed by resorting to military might and state terrorism. It said the world community, particularly the United Nations, is duty-bound to stop injustice, brutalities and merciless killing of youth in IIOJK and it must come to the rescue of the Kashmiris. India must be held accountable for its heinous crimes and continued human rights violations in the occupied territory. Web Desk
