Supreme Court forms panel to assess relief operations

The court directed the committee to file its report within two weeks before it and also before the J&K High Court.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday formed a five-member committee to assess the ground situation in the flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir.

The panel will be headed by a senior registrar of Jammu and Kashmir High Court and will have secretary (revenue, relief and rehabilitation) of the state, a nominee of the central government and the two presidents of J&K Bar Association as its other members.

A bench led by Chief Justice R M Lodha ordered the setting up of the committee so as to take stock of the rescue and rehabilitation operations in the state and report back to the court with incontrovertible findings.

The court directed the committee to file its report within two weeks before it and also before the J&K High Court, where a PIL on the issue of securing relief to flood victims has been filed separately.

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