No government jobs will be given to relatives of terrorists or stone-pelters in Kashmir: Amit Shah

Union Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah said on Sunday that family members of terrorists and stone-pelters would be denied government jobs in Jammu and Kashmir, according to PTI.

“In Kashmir, we have taken a decision that if someone joins a terrorist organisation, their family members will not get any government job,” Shah told the news agency in an interview, adding that this would also apply to those who throw stones at security forces during protests.

The home minister clarified that the government would give a reprieve to those persons who come forward to inform the authorities of their family members who may be affiliated with terrorist groups.

In instances when a terrorist is surrounded by security forces, he is first given a chance to surrender, the home minister claimed. “We call family members like his mother or wife and ask them to make an appeal to the terrorist to surrender,” he said. “If he does not listen, he dies.”

Shah claimed that his government had put an end to the practice, in Kashmir, of militants’ funeral processions being taken out after they had been killed. “We have ensured that the terrorist is buried with all religious formalities but in an isolated place,” he said.

He also said that the National Investigation...

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