NHRC summons J&K CS over callous approach in Rajinder Premi’s case

By Hitesh Tikoo Jammu, Dec 23 : The National Human Rights Commission has summoned Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary, B. V. R. Subrahmanyam, over administration’s insensitive approach to Rajinder Premi’s case.
Rajinder Premi, a Kashmiri Pandit migrant, has been long requesting the government of India to rename the local high school, higher secondary school, block health centre, district library at Anantnag, and a road after his late father, Sarwanand Koul Premi.
Sarwanand Koul Premi, a renowned poet, social activist, journalist and reputed author of about three dozen books, who along with his younger son, late Virendra, then aged 27 years, was kidnapped by terrorists from their ancestral home in Kashmir and killed in 1990.
The complainant (Rajinder Premi) has stated that the terrorists ransacked the family’s entire house and looted everything, leaving them destitute. The incident was a severe blow to the belief of the family, and they were forced to leave Kashmir much against their wishes, leaving everything behind.
It is also stated that the family’s two native residential houses along with a cow-shed were burnt down by the terrorists in1998 and their ancestral immovable property, including agricultural field was trespassed and grabbed by local land mafia.
The National Human Rights Commission had earlier taken cognizance of the complaint made on August 30, 2020 and had observed and directed as under — “It is amply clear that the main grievance of the complainant is the non-implementation of the State Human Rights Commission’s judgment and order dated February 22, 2012 and since the SHRC is ceased to have any existence due to abrogation of Article 370 and introduction of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act 2019, the complainant has came before the National Human Rights Commission with a prayer that Commission may intervene immediately for getting order implemented passed by the SHRC”.