Srinagar: The J&K State Human Rights Commission has recommended government to pay Rs 5 lakh as compensation and a job to relation of a youth who was killed allegedly in firing by government forces at Baramulla in north Kashmir district in 2008.
“I am conscious of the fact that no compensation will succour (the family of the deceased youth) much say that to mitigate some of (their) grievances. The cash amount has to be granted in (family’s) favour ” SHRC member Jang Bahadur Singh Jamwal observed while disposing of a plea, filed in July 2011 by one Ghulam-u-Din Sheikh of Kakar Hamam Baramulla, alleging killing of his son Tanveer Ahmad Sheikh in action by the government forces in 2008.
The SHRC recommended to the Chief Secretary to pay Rs 5 lakhs as compensation in favour of the Sheikh and benefits under SRO-43 (government job for any of the family member) within 30 days.
In his plea, Sheikh had stated that on 22 November 2008, a mob came out on road at Srinagar-Muzaffarabad highway and started pelting stones. The police and paramilitary forces, he said, opened fire, as a result of which his innocent son, who was reading in a local school, got injured and later died. Tanveer, he said, was not involved in any militancy related activity.
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