New Delhi, June 11 (TNS): Indian ruling party’s lawmaker has suggested that “stone pelters in occupied Jammu and Kashmir should be shot dead.”
“I read about the withdrawal of cases against stone-pelters but I think those pelting stones should be shot dead,” BJP Rajya Sabha member DP Vats, told Indian news agency ANI on Monday.
Vats’ remark goes against the centre’s major outreach efforts in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, in the backdrop of the truce move, when Indian home minister announced unilateral ceasefire during the holy month of Ramadan.
On June 7, Mr Singh, who was on a two-day visit to the state to review the security situation had said “children make mistakes” and cases against all of them who have been involved in ‘stone pelting’ for the first time will be withdrawn.
Indian home minister Rajnath Singh in Srinagar said children are easily misguided, pardoned minor stone-pelters.
