India took on United Nations Human Rights chief, Michele Bachelet who had stated that civilians face violence in the country, in Geneva on Tuesday.
Bachelet, while giving the “Global Human Rights Update”, said, “incidents of military and police violence against civilians continue, including use of pellet guns, as well as incidents related to the military.”
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Indra Mani Pandey, while responding to the statement expressed his disappointment at Bachelet’s statement and said that since changes were made in the Jammu Kashmir (referring to the abrogation of the Article 35 A and 370), people there are enjoying the same fundamental rights of freedom as citizens elsewhere in India.
“We have been able to revive grassroots democracy and provide new momentum to social and economic development, despite the challenge posed by COVID-19 pandemic and persistent attempts by one country to infiltrate terrorists to derail this process by all possible means,” Pandey said.