New Delhi (TIP)-Union Home Minister Amit Shah today warned terrorists that India will “hunt each and every one of them” for killing 26 civilians in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Pahalgam.
At an event in Delhi on May 1 Shah in his first public comment on the terror attack said the worst is yet to come for the terrorists.
“Whoever carried out the dastardly terror attack in Pahalgam will not be spared. We will hunt down each and every perpetrator of the Pahalgam terror attack. Don’t think that you have won by killing 26 people. Every one of you will be made answerable,” the Home Minister said at the event to unveil a statue of Upendra Nath Brahma, the leader of Assam’s Bodo community, and name a road after him.
“Har vyakti ko chun chun ke jawab bhi milega, jawab bhi diya jayega… This is the Narendra Modi government; no one will be spared. It is our resolve to uproot terrorism from every inch of this country and it will be accomplished,” he said.
The Home Minister, along with Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and other officials also observed a moment of silence in memory of the victims of the terror attack on April 22.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Bodoland Territorial Council chief executive member Promod Boro also attended the Delhi event.
Tension has been rising in India and Pakistan ties following the Pahalgam terror attack. The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was told about cross-border linkages of the terrorists during the CCS’ first meeting last week.
The last biggest escalation between the two neighbours was in February 2019 when India bombed a terror camp deep inside Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK), in retaliation against the suicide bombing attack on a convoy of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama.
‘Don’t demoralise troops’: SC junks PIL
for judge-led probe into Pahalgam attack
The Supreme Court on Thursday, May 1, refused to entertain a PIL seeking an SIT probe headed by a former judge into the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir in which 25 tourists and a local were killed.
“Be responsible before filing such a PIL. You have some duty towards the country also. This is the way you are trying to demoralise the forces in this hour of crisis and juncture? You are asking a retired Supreme Court judge to investigate. Since when retired high court and Supreme Court judges have become experts in investigation? We only decide disputes. Don’t ask us to pass an order,” a Bench of Justice Kant and Justice N Kotiswar Singh said.
“This is not the time. This is the crucial hour when each and every citizen of this country has joined hands to fight this terrorism… Don’t make any prayer which can demoralise our forces… it is not acceptable to us. Look at the sensitivity of the issue,” Justice Kant told the lawyer who mentioned the matter for urgent hearing. The Bench pulled up the lawyer for filing the petition seeking a probe into the Pahalgam massacre. As the Bench was not inclined to entertain the PIL, the petitioners chose to withdraw the petition.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is already investigating the case.
Hailing from Jammu and Kashmir, Md Junaid and advocates Fatesh Kumar Shahu and Vicky Kumar had sought a direction to the Centre, Jammu and Kashmir, the Central Reserve Police Force and the NIA to prepare an action plan for ensuring the safety of citizens in tourist spots in the union territory.
They also wanted the top court to direct the Centre to form a special investigation team (SIT) to ensure accountability over the terror attack.
In an unusual move, the Supreme Court had on April 23 condemned the “cowardly terrorist attack on tourists”. Terming it a “diabolical act of mindless violence”.
We will hunt down every terrorist involved in Pahalgam attack: Amit Shah
