Readers’ comments: Kashmir demolitions justified, stop anti-national articles supporting terrorists

Editor’s note: In November, the Supreme Court of India held that it is illegal to demolish a property merely because it is owned or occupied by a person who is accused of a crime,

Justice BR Gavai emphasised that state action must be governed by established legal principles rather than the arbitrary discretion of municipal authorities. The court said India's Constitutional framework does not allow an entire family to be punished merely because of one member being accused of a crime.

In March, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan of the Supreme Court said at a public event that “using a bulldozer to demolish a property is like running a bulldozer over the Constitution”.

Hi propogandists, I’d advise you to first of all recognise these “militants” as the filthy terrorists that they are: the Jaish-E-Mohammed Islamic “terrorist” group, not a “militant group” (“Homes turned to rubble, Kashmiri militants’ families question ‘collective punishment’”). Second, are you really that naive to think that the families of these terrorists didn’t play a role in them becoming eventual terrorists? They deserve it. I’d advise you to stop publishing anti-national articles like these at the earliest. – Suveer Adity Joshi

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