Union Ministry of Home Affairs and Defence Ministry have submitted before the J&K High Court that the Public Interest Litigation seeking probe into the killing of three Rajouri youth – Abrar Ahmad, Imtiyaz Ahmad and Ibrar Ahmad – in a staged encounter by security forces in Shopian was “not maintainable.”
As the PIL filed by Jammu & Kashmir Reconciliation Front through its chairman Dr Sandeep Mawa came up for hearing before a bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Puneet Gupta, ASGI T M Shamsi told the Court that the plea was not “maintainable”.
“This writ petition by a private citizen would not be maintainable in as much as the parents of the deceased have already filed a writ petition at Jammu wing,” Shamsi said.
While advocate Salih Pirzada on behalf of the petitioner sought a short adjournment for ascertaining the nature of the proceedings in the petition filed at Jammu wing, the court asked him to inform it about the same by October 23.
Dr Mawa who is a resident member of minority Kashmiri Pandit community has approached the High Court as the Supreme Court on September 8 had declined to hear the PIL and had asked him to approach J&K High Court.
