The Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference chairman and MLA Sajad Gani Lone said that his party will knock on the doors of the Supreme Court next week to challenge the “existing police verification system in Jammu and Kashmir”.
He said that his party’s legal team, led by former law secretary Ashraf Mir and represented by advocate Sajad Geelani, has finalised the draft petition to challenge the ongoing police verification system in place.
In a statement, Lone expressed apprehensions over the current 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 by other states of the country,” he stated.
Lone further promised that the petition, aimed at establishing a more equitable system of verification, will be filed in the coming week, ushering in much-needed reforms.
In the maiden assembly session held earlier this month, several other legislators had demanded a review of the police verification process.
There have been multiple allegations by several job aspirants over the last few years that the police issued adverse certificates because of a relative being either a militant or a separatist leader.
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