With the release of Vivek Agnihotri’s film The Kashmir Files, the discussion about the injustice done to Kashmiri Pandits has started across the country. Meanwhile, a public interest litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking justice for Kashmiri Pandits. NGO V The Citizen has urged the Supreme Court to constitute an SIT. The petition has demanded that an SIT team be set up to find out who were the people who persecuted Hindus and Sikhs in Kashmir from 1989 to 2003. Not only this, it has also been demanded in the petition that there should be a census of all those Hindus and Sikhs who suffered the horrors of massacre in Kashmir.
According to the petitioner, he has filed this public interest litigation after doing a thorough research on the basis of books, articles and the ordeal of the displaced. According to the petitioner, the books written on the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits and Sikhs have been carefully studied by Jagmohan’s ‘My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir’ and Rahul Pandita’s book ‘Our Moon Has Blood Clots’. According to the petitioner, the book explains in a better way how the government machinery collapsed during that period and the administration and law came to a complete standstill in the Valley.
According to the petitioner, after reading the book, it is understood that during that time the entire machinery of the state government became inactive. How traitors and terrorists climbed the corpses of Hindus and Sikhs and took control of the whole of Kashmir. It has also been demanded in the petition that any land purchased from Kashmiri Pandits or Sikhs after 1990, whether it is religious land, residential land, agricultural land, or commercial or industrial land, should be canceled and declared illegal. . Significantly, Vivek Agnihotri’s film The Kashmir Files, made on the displacement of Kashmiri Pandits, has once again brought the issue of Kashmiri Pandits to the discussion. The film has been made tax free in many states of the country. Politics is also going on fiercely on the film.