Supreme Court: Constitutional Bench issued notices to Centre on Friday, 10 states are on plea against alleged attacks on Kashmiri students. Nodal officers have also been asked to implement preventive measures against assaults, social boycott and intimidation of Kashmiri students.
The Supreme Court on Friday sent notices to the Centre and 10 states asking for their responses on a petition seeking intervention to prevent alleged attacks on Kashmiri students following the Pulwama suicide bombing, ANI reported.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi directed nodal officers to take steps to prevent acts of intimidation, threat, assault and social boycott.
The top court directed the states to take action against the accused and posted the matter for further hearing to next week, as per a report by Live Law.
Several Kashmiri students were reportedly harassed and beaten up in the Dehradun following the Pulwama terror attack in South Kashmir which killed over 40 CRPF soldiers. Since then, many Kashmiri students in Uttarakhand have temporarily left the state. Nearly 300 Kashmiri students have fled to Jammu and Delhi from colleges in Uttarakhand after large-scale eviction from their campuses.
However, the central government denied of any such harassment of Kashmiri students ever took place. “We are in touch with all institutes, no such incident took place,” Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar had said.
Advocate Tariq Adeeb filed the plea in the Supreme Court. The respondent states are Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal.
Adeeb had asked the Supreme Court to issue directions to heads of educational institutions and to take steps to protect the lives of Kashmiris. The lawyer also wanted people indulging in hate speech to be prosecuted.
Source: ANI
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