Kashmiri Pandits, Sikhs rehabilitation: SC allows NGO to approach Centre

Story by  ATV | Posted by  Nakul Shivani | Date 02-09-2022
Supreme Court of India
Supreme Court of India

 

New Delhi

The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a plea seeking an SIT probe into the targeted killings of Kashmiri Pandits which led to their exodus from the valley.

A two-judge bench of the apex court told the counsel, representing the NGO We the Citizens, to raise the grievances before the Central government.

The plea sought direction for the rehabilitation of those who migrated out of the valley and also sought a SIT be formed to identify those who "aided and abetted the genocide" of the Hindu and Sikh communities between 1989-2003.

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A curative petition, filed by Roots in Kashmir, is also pending in the apex court seeking a probe either by the CBI or National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the alleged mass-murders and genocide of Kashmiri Pandits during 1989-90.