Rising Kashmir: Jammu: Saturday,
May 11, 2013.
A Jammu based
social activist has filed an RTI application with Jammu and Kashmir government
seeking a certified copy of the Justice Ansari Commission Report regarding the
attack on the procession of Sikhs on January 13,
1989 by a mob
in Jammu where more than a dozen Sikhs were murdered and hundred others were
injured.
In his RTI
application, Harasis Singh (Kranti) has requested the Public Information
Officer of JK General Administration
Department (GAD) at Srinagar to provide a certified copy of the Justice Ansari
Commission Report stating that on January 13, 1989 during an attack on the
procession of Sikhs by a mob in Jammu, more than a dozen Sikhs were murdered
and hundred others were injured.
The
government had constituted a commission under Justice A Ansari to investigate
the incident for fixing the responsibility and to submit its report. The
activist vide his application under Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act
2009, dated May 10, 2013 has also asked the PIO to furnish the details of
action taken by the State government so far following the recommendations of
the commission.
Giving
further details about his RTI petition, applicant Harasis Singh informed that
the unfortunate incident happened in the year 1989 and even after 24 years, the
victims are awaiting the justice therefore he being a law abiding citizen
adopted (RTI) a democratic and constitutional way to seek the copy of the
Justice Ansari Commission Report and sought the details of actions taken by the
government to provide relief to the sufferers.
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