Taking an "adverse view of unsatisfactory and vague" reply furnished by the Jammu and Kashmir Government regarding enforced or involuntary disappearances of people in the State, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the State to furnish all details in regard to such cases.
The Commission has also issued a notice to Defence Ministry seeking a report within four weeks on a news item titled "Army takes away groom on day 1 of the wedding, sends his body back", the NHRC sources said today.
According to the news report, one Tahir Hassan was taken away by Army on his wedding day and three days later the family was told that the 22-year-old Tahir, who the Army claimed was their "guide", had been killed in an explosion at a militant camp.
Upon perusing that press report, the Commission noted that if the report was true, "it raised serious issue of violation of human rights."
NHRC, which considered the issue of disappearances after being approached by Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), had asked the state to inform whether it has established a system to record allegations of enforced or involuntary disappearances and, if so, the nature of that system, the number of such allegations recorded by it, the details of the system established thus far to investigate such allegations and the results, thus far, of such probes.
It also asked about the measures that were being taken to prevent the occurrence of such disappearances, steps taken to book those who may have been involved in the cases and to provide justice to those who have suffered.
According to APDP, more than 8000
people have disappeared so far from the state.