Bandipora, Sept 16 : Former vice-chairman J&K Waqf Board and senior People’s Conference leader, Nizamuddin Bhat has appealed to the Union Home Minister and Jammu and Kashmir LG to reconsider the decision of arrest of three clerics of religious standing from South Kashmir under Public Safety Act.
Bhat, in a statement, issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) has also made an appeal for release of other detenues languishing in different jails since years.
He said that most of the families of detenues back home are suffering from economic and psychological distress and he expected compassion from the executive keeping in the precedent of a welfare state.
“Jammu and Kashmir has been witness to various problems and makes a special case for a just and liberal view in respect of people influenced by political discourses. In past a reconciliatory approach had been adopted which helped build a constituency of confidence, trust and belief in the accommodative system,” he said.
He said the past practices of amnesty and compassion could be continued to give further confidence to people to live in peace, harmony and play a participatory role in rebuilding trust.
Bhat sought intervention of National Human Rights Commission on cases of prolonged sententious and excessive hunt of youth, which he said has caused helplessness and may erode people’s faith in the system—(KNO)
