Haryana notices to organisers of Jat stir

Saurabh Malik

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 21

Nearly eight months after the Jat reservation stir, the Haryana government has issued notices to the alleged abetter and organisers, including Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti members and “other leading persons”. 

They have been asked to give details of their moveable and immoveable properties. The “leaders”, who allegedly participated in the agitation, have already been told about the Supreme Court directions on recovery of losses from the agitationists.

Information to this effect was furnished before Justice Rajan Gupta of the Punjab and Haryana High Court by Haryana Chief Secretary Depinder Singh Dhesi during the hearing today of a contempt petition by the Anti- Corruption Federation of India, a Ludhiana-based NGO.

The state counsel placed Dhesi’s affidavit dated October 18. He also submitted that the state would comply with the SC directions in the “Destruction of Public and Private Properties versus the State of Andhra Pradesh” and another petition.

He referred to the affidavit stating that the Haryana Additional Chief Secretary (Home) had issued guidelines, vide a letter dated May 30, for maintenance of law and order to prevent a repetition of the February 2016 incidents. These included information to stir leaders on the SC directions on the recovery of losses from the protesters.

The Deputy Commissioners had issued notices to Sangharsh Samiti members and “other leading persons”, informing them they had been found to be abetter or organisers of the stir, and asking them to submit details of their assets. 

Justice Gupta fixed the next hearing for mid-November.