NHRC notices to Centre, 3 states over ill-treatment of Kashmiris across India

NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday issued notices to the Union Home Secretary and the Secretary, Union Ministry of Human Resource Development seeking reports over “ill-treatment of Kashmiris ” in the aftermath of Pulwama terror attack.
The NHRC headed by Justice H L Dattu – the former chief justice of India also calls for a report on the matter to be submit within two weeks and directing it to act “quickly” against the miscreants.
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“Rustication, suspension or action against the students, as mentioned in the news reports, can be a matter of investigation on merits but the incidents of ill-treatment of the Kashmiri people in different parts of the country is definitely in violation of Article 14 of the Constitution of India, which protects equality before the law and equal protection of laws within the territory of India,” the NHRC said.
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