Human Rights

Abuse of Kashmiri Prisoners in Jails: JRL delegation led by Yasin Malik meets SHRC chairperson

File Photo of Kashmiri Prisoners abused in New Delhi's Tihar Jail.

Apprises SHRC chairperson about the plight of Kashmiri inmates

Asks him to deliver justice to these ‘oppressed inmates’

‘Shifting political inmates from Srinagar central jail is pure vendetta and vindictiveness’

Srinagar: A delegation of Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) of Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik and led by Malik visited the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) office in Srinagar and met with the chairman of commission justice Bilal Nazki and other members of commission.

Terming the ongoing assault on Kashmiri inmates, shifting them to Jammu jails as illegal, unethical and act of vendetta, JRL in a joint press release said that everything possible will be done to provide justice to Kashmiri inmates who are being penalized by so-called rulers and their police unreasonably and illegally.

In a statement after the meeting, the JRL said, “the International community acknowledges the rights of prisoners and those trampling these rights have no right to call themselves democrats. Joint resistance leadership will do everything possible to secure justice for Kashmiri inmates”

Terming the shifting of many inmates including lifers Sheikh Nazir Ahmad, Muhammad Ayub Dar, Muhammad Ayub Mir, Abdul Hamid Teeli, Tariq ahmad Dar from Srinagar central jail to Jammu jails as act of shifting blame on innocents, JRL said that so-called rulers and their police is actually trying to pass on buck, hide their own failures and penalize innocent people for none of their fault. Even some lifers who were on parole have been re-arrested and sent to Jammu violating court orders to lodge them at central jail Srinagar, said JRL.

“Under the garb of so-called largest democracy, Indian rulers, their Kashmiri stooges and oppressive police are trying to impose North Korea type rule in Jammu Kashmir which is highly condemnable,” JRL said.

The photographs of several injured under trials had circulated on social media, with reports that Kashmiri inmates were beaten and abused in jails.

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The violation of fundamental, human and legal rights of prisoners, who had alleged they were subjected to severe physical torture at the Tihar Jail came under the Delhi High Court’s scanner as it ordered an enquiry into the incident.

“We need to take a call. It (the incident) is completely unjustifiable. If this is the situation in Delhi, what about other places,” a bench of acting-Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar remarked.

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Expressing her concern over the reports of Kashmiri inmates being abused beaten, beaten harassed and manhandled, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday spoke to the Union Home secretary Rajiv Gauba and asked him to intervene in the matter.

The Union Home Secretary assured the Chief Minister of a thorough probe into the incident and punishing the culprits for having violated the jail manual.

The Union Home Secretary assured the Chief Minister of a thorough probe into the incident and punishing the culprits for having violated the jail manual.

Violation of fundamental, human and legal rights of prisoners, who have alleged they were subjected to severe physical torture at the Tihar Jail on Monday came under the Delhi High Court’s scanner as it ordered an enquiry into the incident.

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