“Every Hindu living in the Kashmir Valley is not a Kashmiri Pandit and cannot get the benefits of special job schemes meant for members of that specific community, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has said in a recent judgment. Dismissing a plea seeking to include some Hindu groups and Sikhs into the Prime Minister’s job package for Kashmiri Pandits, the court said the targeted group is a “”separately identifiable community distinct from other Hindus residing in the Valley like Rajputs, Brahmins other than Kashmiri Pandits, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and many others,”” said Justice Sanjeev Kumar in his judgment on Tuesday. The petitioners had argued that other Hindu groups, besides the Sikh community, too, had suffered much and ought to be considered for benefits similar to the ones extended to non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits. The court, however, said the argument that they can be grouped together as Kashmiri Pandits “”cannot be accepted””.
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