Court Paves Way For Release Of Allowance To Kashmiri Pandit Families
NDTV
The stopping of the relief led to protests by migrant Kashmiri Pandits at different places in Jammu over the past fortnight.
In a major relief to protesting Kashmiri Pandits, a local court today modified its earlier order to pave the way for the release of monthly relief allowance to over 25,000 migrant families.
Additional District Judge (Commercial Court) Syed Sarfaraz Hussain Shah passed the order on humanitarian grounds after hearing a plea filed by senior advocate Monika Kohli.
The petition was filed on behalf of the migrant pandits for modification of the August 26 order which had resulted in stopping of the monthly relief, the only source of livelihood for some displaced families.
Hearing the long-pending case, the court on August 26 had ordered attachment of major head 2055, sub head 0872 and 1057 of judgement debtors, relief commissioner in connection with a case filed by a contractor who had constructed two-room tenements at Nagrota and Muthi for migrants at a cost of Rs 9.22 crore after getting the contracts between 2005 and 2008.
