Kashmir based activists filed petition at NHRC against using of pellet on toddler

New Delhi, Nov 26 (Only Kashmir): Two Kashmir based Human Rights activists Syed Mujtaba Hussian and Mirza Jahanzeb Beg have filed a petition at National Human Rights Council (NHRC) against the use of pellet on 20-month-old Hiba Nisar of South Kashmir. Hiba, according to the doctors may lose eyesight for lifetime. The incident brings back the bitter memories of 2016 unrest in which hundreds of people including men and women mostly teenagers lost their precious eyesight completely due to the pellets.
Pertinently, on 25th November, Twenty-month-old Hiba Nisar was with her mother inside their house at Kapran village of south Kashmir’s when pellets hit the infant in her right eye. According to victim’s mother Fancy, they were forced to leave the home due to suffocation caused by Tear Gas shells fired by the forces. When she was on her door, forces fired pellets on them. Fancy covered Hiba’s face with her hand but couldn’t save her from the pellets. She too received pellets on her left hand while making an unsuccessful attempt to protect her infant daughter.



‘The commission should take Action Taken Report and an independent investigation be initiated against the authorities involved and a compensation of Rs 10 lakhs be granted to the child victim on an immediate basis and the State Government may be directed to bear all the medical expenses of the child victim’, the activists said in their petition.
The Activists have also written to other International Child Rights Institutions, Special Rapporteurs to United Nations and Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Meanwhile, several Human Rights Activists and Netizens expressed anguish for not even sparing a toddler from pellet havoc.