Jammu, March 23 -- Urging society's elders to engage in honest introspection, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday said a troubling system had taken roots in Jammu and Kashmir, where terror victims were treated as burdens while those linked to terror were made beneficiaries.

While addressing a function in Jammu organized to handover appointment letters to families of terror victims and other beneficiaries, LG Sinha said, "The elders of the society must ask themselves some tough questions- what kind of society we had become a few decades ago? How did Jammu Kashmir evolve into a system where the victim became a burden that time and those linked to terror were turned into beneficiaries? "

"I am confident that these questions will shake ...