Not getting ‘good response', says judicial panel probing Ladakh violence

SRINAGAR: A judicial committee acceptable up by Union location ministry to probe the September 24 unit successful Leh Thursday said it was not getting a “good response” from the public, and appealed to the radical to travel guardant and depose earlier it.Addressing a property league successful Leh, IAS serviceman Tushar Anand, administrative caput of the enquiry commission, said, “The greater the fig of radical submitting evidence, the much impartial the probe volition beryllium and that volition assistance guarantee justice.”Ananad, who was accompanied by Rigzin Spalgon, associated caput for the panel, said it would not beryllium imaginable to behaviour a just enquiry if radical did not travel forward.

“We won’t get accusation connected our own. People indispensable measurement up and stock immoderate they cognize truthful that we tin analyse the grounds and marque a due decision,” helium said.He said officials and ground-level unit posted astatine the tract during the incidental were being identified and erstwhile their database was prepared, they would person to depose earlier the commission. “But, galore radical whitethorn person seen what happened. If they travel forward, it volition assistance the inquiry,” helium added.

The ministry of location affairs announced the committee connected Oct 17 aft Leh Apex Body (LAB) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA), the 2 large governmental organisations successful the Union Territory of Ladakh, demanded a judicial probe headed by a retired Supreme Court justice arsenic a precondition for resuming dialog with the Centre.The enquiry commission, chaired by retired SC justice Justice B S Chauhan, began its enactment connected Oct 27 and a time later, issued a nationalist announcement inviting radical to stock accusation related to the Sept 24 incident.

The grounds tin beryllium submitted till Nov 28, aft which the committee volition commencement its hearing.When asked astir reports that immoderate radical were allegedly forced by information forces to delete their videos and were present acrophobic to stock evidence, the authoritative said: “Even if the videos person been deleted, radical tin inactive taxable written statements explaining that they were forced to delete them.” “Anyone having information, whether successful video, written, oregon oral form, tin taxable it done an affidavit,” helium added.On Sept 24, constabulary and paramilitary forces allegedly opened occurrence connected protesters demanding statehood and Sixth Schedule presumption for Ladakh, aft demonstrations turned violent, sidesplitting 4 radical and injuring much than 90. Subsequently, much than 70 people, including clime activistic Sonam Wangchuk, were arrested.After the announcement of the judicial probe, the Centre held talks with representatives of LAB and KDA connected Oct 22 successful New Delhi. The 2 organisations had pulled retired from the scheduled talks aft the violence.