Police Verification System

J&K Peoples Conference President and MLA Handwara Sajad Lone revealed that his party’s legal team, led by former Law Secretary Ashraf Mir and represented by Advocate Sajad Geelani, has finalized the draft petition to challenge the current police verification system.

In a statement issued here, Lone expressed concerns over the existing police verification system, which he described as a form of collective and community punishment that severely undermines individual rights.

“It is our right that the police verification system be revamped and brought in line with the practices followed in other states of the country,” he stated.

Lone further assured that the petition, aimed at establishing a more equitable system of verification, will be filed in the coming week, ushering in much-needed reforms.

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The Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference (JKPC), led by Sajad Lone, is preparing to file a petition in the Supreme Court, challenging the current police verification system in Jammu and Kashmir.

The party argues that this system imposes a “collective punishment” on entire families, citing the recent “bulldozer judgment” from the Supreme Court as the basis for their plea.

The “bulldozer judgment,” in which the Supreme Court ruled that demolishing homes as retribution for one family member’s actions constitutes a form of collective punishment, has inspired the JKPC’s legal approach. “Encouraged by the Bulldozer Judgement where the Supreme Court clearly ruled that it is a collective punishment against the family, the JKPCO will approach the Supreme Court with a plea that the system of Police Verification on J&K is a more chronic and serious case of collective punishment against the family,” read a recent post on X (formerly Twitter) by the JKPC.

“That in the name of national security, the law of natural justice is violated,” it continued.

In a separate post, JKPC Chief Sajad Lone stated: “In the highlighted para, the Supreme Court calls it collective punishment against the family. An adverse police verification certificate because a relative has an adverse police record is also a collective punishment against the family. Kashmir specific Stone Age justice.” (KNS)

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