One of India’s foremost Supreme Court lawyers, Dushyant Dave, has called for immediate accountability for all the lapses in Pahalgam. These go well beyond critical intelligence failures and include the demolition of houses and large scale arrests purely on grounds of suspicion, the mistreatment of Kashmiris in places like Punjab and Uttarakhand, as well as the selective manner in which the media has covered and reported the Pahalgam tragedy, he said.

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