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The Supreme Court will hear on Friday a petition seeking rehabilitation of Kashmiri Hindus and Sikhs in the Valley. This PIL has been filed by an NGO. It also demanded a SIT probe into the massacre in 1990 and a census of Pandits who had left the Valley. A bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice CT Ravikumar will hear this.
The NGO ‘We the Citizens’ has filed the petition through advocate Barun Kumar Sinha. In this, he has requested the Center and the Jammu and Kashmir government to conduct a census of Hindus and Sikhs living in different parts of India after the massacre in the Union Territory in the 90s.
It said that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) be set up and the perpetrators involved in and aiding and abetting the genocide of Hindus and Sikhs in Jammu and Kashmir from 1989 to 2003 be identified. On the basis of the report of the SIT, the accused should be directed to be prosecuted. It has also demanded an inquiry into the killing of Kashmiri Pandits killed in the Kashmir Valley in recent months.
In 2017 the Supreme Court dismissed the petition.
The petition alleged that those who left Kashmir after 1990, leaving behind their immovable properties, are leading the life of refugees in other parts of India. Those people should be identified and rehabilitated. Earlier in the year 2017, a review petition was filed in the Supreme Court seeking an inquiry into the killings of Kashmiri Pandits in 1989-90. This was rejected by the court.
The court had said in the order that it is difficult to collect evidence after 27 years of the massacre. The new petition, filed in March, said that if an inquiry can be conducted into the 1984 riots (Sikh riots) after 33 years, the same is possible in this case as well.
In Nadimarg, terrorists had killed 24 Kashmiri Pandits on the night of 23 March 2003.
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