New Delhi, February 26: The Supreme Court yesterday refused to entertain a PIL filed by victims of terrorism in Punjab seeking a direction to the government to rehabilitate them.
A bench headed by the Chief Justice SH Kapadia declined to pass any order on a petition filed by Terrorist Violence Victims Association and asked it to approach the Punjab and Haryana high court.
“Why don’t you go to the high court? How can we go on passing a direction as if the high court does not exist,” the bench said.
Advocate Pradeep Gupta, appearing for the petitioner, submitted persons who were displaced during the period of terrorism in the state have not been properly rehabilitated.
He pleaded the court should pass a direction to the government to provide a job to at least one member of each displaced family.
“All the total 424 families are living in the Punjab Housing Board Colony Camp and some of them have not been given specified land and they are stil living in open tent. Though they have been allowed to live there, till date no official letter has been issued to them,” Gupta said.
“Majority of the petitioners are daily wage workers and are doing work in small shops. They must be provided some relief,” he said adding the state must be directed to give a government job to at least one member of each family.
—-PTI