Settle claims of martyr’s kin: Panthers Party to Malik

Tribune News Service

Jammu, January 15

The Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party on Tuesday urged Governor Satya Pal Malik to settle the claims and dues of families of martyrs.

Despite a lapse of 15 months after the martyrdom of Sub-Inspector Imran Tak of Basantgarh, who laid down his life while fighting armed insurgency in Kashmir in November 2017, it was condemnable that the state failed to fulfil its obligations towards his family, said Harsh Dev Singh, National Panthers Party chairman.

Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, he said while the erstwhile PDP-BJP government lavishly doled incentives and jobs to surrendered militants, dependents of deceased anti-nationals and subversives in the Valley, the next of kin of the slain soldiers received “contemptuous treatment at the hands of the rulers”.

Harsh Dev called for fulfilling the promise of a gallantry award in favour of martyred soldier Imran Tak and urged the Governor for an immediate settlement of SRO-43 case of Muzzaffar Tak, brother of Imran Tak, whose file was allegedly made to move from one office to another during the past one year, causing “embarrassment and humiliation to the bereaved family”.