The petitioner also prayed for adequate companypensation for the victims.
Also the respondents may be directed for providing food and medical facilities to the stranded pilgrims till their evacuation as the physical survival of the said pilgrims is under threat d to provide companypensation without delay to all those whose houses, shops, infrastructures, belonging have been destroyed by the unruly mob in Kishtwar yesterday.
On 13.08.2013 the following order was passed in the aforesaid Criminal Miscellaneous Petition In the writ petition, the petitioner has sought for certain directions, directing the respondent No.2, namely, the Government of Jammu Kashmir, to institute a high power judicial inquiry about the incident occurred on 18th July, 2013 in village Gool, Ramban District, Jammu and Kashmir, and other reliefs including the safety of pilgrims, who have been stranded on different stations.
Accordingly, the writ petition was filed seeking the following reliefs a issue an appropriate writ order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing respondent number2 to institute a high power judicial inquiry into the circumstances that led to the killing of four villagers and injuring more than three dozens on 18.07.2013 in village Gool, Ramban District JK.
The four villages were killed in firing whereas 42 were injured on the same day.
Specifically, the writ petition centres around an incident that had occurred on 17/18 of July, 2013 at a place called Gool in District Ramban, in the companyrse of which a large body of civilian population had attacked a BSF camp and in the exchange of fire that ensued, 4 civilians had died and 44 others received serious injuries.
Setting out figures and statistics of innocent people who have lost their lives in incidents of crime and terrorists acts companymitted from time to time in the State of Jammu Kashmir, the persistent failure of the State Government to prevent such untoward incidents have been alleged alongwith the perceived inefficiency of the State Government in providing adequate relief and rehabilitation measures including companypensation following such incidents.
b to hold judicial inquiry into the failure of the government to provide protection to the lives, properties and infrastructures belonging to a particular companymunity which were attacked by an uncontrolled mob in Kishtwar on 09/08/2013 c grant the relief to the extent that the respondents may be directed to provide safe passage to the stranded pilgrims, so that they may be able to return to their homes.
b direct respondents number1 2 to provide full security, boarding and lodging facilities, besides, all medical, care to the pilgrims to Shri Amarnath Shri Mata Vaishno Devi who have been stranded at different stations during their journey in the State of JK due to the imposition of curfew.
In the meanwhile, the petitioner has also filed Crl.
M.P.No.16696 of 2013, praying for further directions, which are as under a direct the respondents, the Union of India and the State of JK to hold a judicial inquiry into the entire circumstances that led to the disturbance in Kishtwar on 9th August, 2013, resulting into death of two civilians and injuring to several residents.
On 8th August, 2013, we issued numberice returnable in two weeks.
RANJAN GOGOI, J. The petitioner in Writ Petition Criminal No.
125 of 2013 is the Political Secretary of J K National Panthers Party JKNPP which is a political party recognised by the Election Commission of India.
