The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued discover to the Center and Army Chief on a plea searching for instructions for repatriating Indian troopers held as Prisoners of War (PoWs) in Pakistan.
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A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant issued the discover on the petition filed by Delhi resident Jasbir Kaur, spouse of Shaurya Chakra winner Major Kanwaljit Singh, and Bir Bahadur Singh, a former Army Havildar and at present secretary common of Voice of Ex Servicemen Society .
Major Kanwaljit Singh was taken PoW by Pakistan after being injured at Ferozepur through the 1971 battle.
The plea additionally urged the court docket to direct the “to obtain from the International Red Cross, the checklist of PoWs, who had been scheduled to be repatriated by Pakistan in years succeeding the 1971 battle however (had been) finally not repatriated as scheduled within the third prepare of PoWs”.
It additionally needed the court docket to direct all and “to approach the International Court of Justice against Pakistan with appropriate judicial remedies, which are coercive and binding in nature for release of all the Indian PoWs held under the tortuous custody of Pakistan in violation of the Geneva Convention for Treatment of Prisoners of War”.
The petition referred to the Gujarat High Court order of December 23, 2011 on the topic and stated it has the names of 54 of those PoWs.
The plea, filed via Advocate Namit Saxena, additionally referred to the killing of Captain Saurabh Kalia and 5 different Indian troopers on the occasion of the Pakistan Army through the Kargil battle. It prayed to the court docket to direct the federal government and Army Chief to “produce the court of inquiry proceedings held if any under the mandatory provisions of Army Rules…into the circumstances under which the frugal patrol of Captain Saurabh Kalia and five Sepoys of 4 JAT Regiment , was ordered to Bajrang Post in May 1999 during the Kargil war, taken Prisoners of War, tortured inhumanly and murdered in cold blood…”.
It stated one Naik Gule Khandan of Pakistan Army had confessed in a public felicitation operate held in Pakistan – and aired on YouTube – about “hunting down Captain Kalia’s patrol”. It requested the court docket to direct the method to the International Court of Justice towards Pakistan.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
