An unofficial estimate puts the number of Rohingya Muslims living illegally in India at 40,000 and 10,000 of them are in Jammu and Kashmir. The central government is already planning to identify and deport Rohingya Muslims from J&K.
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Srinagar, April 8: The Jammu Chamber of Commerce & Industry (JCCI) has threatened to launch “Identify and Kill” movement against Bangladeshi and Rohingya refugees if they were not deported from Jammu and Kashmir within a month.
“Such settlers should be deported within one month and the people on whose land these foreigners have settled be booked under PSA otherwise Chamber shall have no option but to launch “Identify and Kill Movement” against such Criminals,” Chamber President Rakesh Gupta warned the state and central government while addressing a press conference here on Friday.
“The Chamber feels that it shall be no offence to deal with such Criminals / Drug Traffickers who have illegally crossed into the State of J&K and it is high time that the people at large should also shoulder and share responsibility of the security forces and deal with them as the situation demands,” said Gupta who was accompanied by other office bearers of JCCI at the press conference.
JCCI, a registered organization, uploaded a press note containing the threat on its official website.
It claimed it has long been demanding the deportation of the illegal refugees but the authorities have not done much.
“The Chamber of Commerce & Industry was the first to demand their deportation from the State of J&K as the Chamber is committed to protect the interests of the people at large in the State as a part of social corporate responsibility. It may not be out of place to mention that neither the Government of Jammu & Kashmir is signatory to any United Nation’s treaty nor Article 370 allows illegal Foreign settlers for any permanent settlement in the State. The Chamber surely is aware that the district administration has initiated process to identify such settlers and the Union Government has asked details about these settlers from the state, but the Chamber feels it is not enough till these foreigners are deported from the State of J&K,” read the press note.
An unofficial estimate puts the number of Rohingya Muslims living illegally in India at 40,000 and 10,000 of them are in Jammu and Kashmir. The central government is already planning to identify and deport Rohingya Muslims from J&K.
Following the JCCI threat, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has warned to deal with strictly anyone who tries to take law into hand.
“Whoever they might be, anyone who takes law in their own hands or threatens will be dealt with strictly,” she was quoted as saying by
Whoever they might be, anyone who takes law in their own hands or threatens will be dealt with strictly: J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti pic.twitter.com/eACXdly17a
— ANI (@ANI_news) April 8, 2017 “>ANI news agency.
