Jammu, March 27 (IANS) Calling for collective and meaningful efforts to contain the spread of deadly COVID-19, Peoples Democratic Party on Friday urged administration to take immediate measures to check alleged excesses by police and paramilitary personnel while enforcing lockdown across the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
“While all efforts of the administration to check the spread of the deadly virus across Jammu and Kashmir was appreciated, reports of people being allegedly beaten up, humiliated and tortured on the pretext of enforcing lockdown must be viewed seriously”, PDP spokesperson and former legislator Firdous Tak, said in a statement.
He said that mainstream and social media platform were flooded with images of people being paraded and humiliated and their videos and pictures are being circulated by police and paramilitary personnel enforcing lockdown. In various parts of Jammu and Kashmir, especially Kashmir, government employees engaged in essential services, including doctors, were also allegedly harassed and beaten up.
“The behaviour difference between law-breakers and enforcers must be visible and the two cannot act in the same manner”, he said, adding that nothing permits a police man to take law into his own hand and resort to inhuman and shameful methodology.
Tak said that a humane approach was the need of the hour where the society and law enforcement agencies play a collective and shared role in saving human lives. He also urged the people to cooperate and follow all the guidelines being issued by the administration in order to prevent the spread of deadly disease in the community.
He urged the party workers across Jammu and Kashmir to play a role of educator and catalyst in order to spread the message of social distancing.
“The PDP workers have always played a positive role in the society and at this crucial juncture again, we all have to stand with each other to face all difficulties together”, Tak added.
–IANS
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