Mubashir Aalam Wani
Srinagar, Dec 12: Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul on Monday recommended setting up of an impartial truth and reconciliation commission (TRC) for probing human rights violations that have taken place in Jammu & Kashmir in 1980.
Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, in his judgment while approving scrapping of Article 370, recommended the setting up of an impartial truth and reconciliation commission.
“The Commission will investigate and report on the violation of human rights both by State and non-State actors perpetrated in Jammu & Kashmir at least since the 1980s and recommend measures for reconciliation,” he said.
Justice Kaul said the Commission should be set up expediently, before memory escapes.
“The exercise should be time-bound. There is already an entire generation of youth that has grown up with feelings of distrust and it is to them that we owe the greatest duty of reparation. At the same time, considering the significance of the matter and the sensitivities involved, it is my view that it is for the Government to devise the manner in which this should be set up, and to determine the best way forward for the commission,” he said,
In the past, Kashmiri politicians like Omar Abdullah and Sajad Gani Lone have also demanded the setting of the TRC.
