[Reader-list] Justice for Nilofer and Asiya

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

Justice for Nilofer and
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Shopian looks like a ghost town today. There are no people on the streets.
The shops are shut wide and the atmosphere of gloom looms large over an
otherwise bustling suburb. The rape and murder of two young women has left
the town full of bitterness, anger and hopelessness.

There obviously are no two ways about the fact that the ghastly murder and
rape should invite severest possible criticism with a strong call for
finding the perpetrators of this heinous crime and punishing them in a
manner as to make an example of them. But here we are. The young prince
dismissed their rape and killing as a simple case of drowning. As a Chief
Minister of the State shouldn’t he have been a little more prudent than this
clownish dad. He should have at-least bothered to know the depth of the
water in Rembyaer Nallah in this season. As someone who has crossed this
Nallah even without his knees getting wet I must say that the Chief Minister
was at his apathetic and ignorant best. Little did he realise that a man as
perverse as Yasin Malik or Bitta Karate is roaming free to commit more
crimes.

The day the badly bruised bodies of Nilofer and Asiya were recovered, they
bore marks of what seemed like molestation if not rape. Their clothes were
torn and bodies disfigured. Yet the Police dismissed it as a case of
drowning. Forensic reports now confirm the rape of a pregnant Nilofer and a
studious and intelligent Asiya.

*Two grown up women drowning in knee deep water!
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This led to huge protests all over the valley. A simple word of acceptance
of the crimecould have avoided all that happened later. The separatists were
quick to latch on some food. After all the Young Prince had given them a
stick to beat with which they could beat him, the army, the establishment
and India. The beastly Mehbooba wasn’t the one to be left behind. Despite
the fact that her party-men were beaten on way to Shopian, she looked at it
as opportunity she was in no mood to let go off. The sexually frustrated
Asiya Andrabi too took to streets with her band of Dark Scary Images. *The
calls for justice soon got lost in the din of cries for Azadi and removal
for AFSPA.
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This obviously is no time for politicking. Unequivocally we condemn the
State governments handling of this entire episode. What was ideally a law an
order problem has now spun into a huge controversy thanks to the kid who our
National Media projects as the best thing to have happened to India after
the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. Apart from firing the SP of Shopian(who
obviously deserves to be fired) the Chief Minister should also have resigned
for the way he led Kashmir to one more crisis.

*Nilofer’s husband, Shakeel Ahmed has said time and again that he wants
justice and not Azadi. Unfortunately what he gets is denials and more
denials and now an enquiry commission. The State ought to show its concern
for its people irrespective of their political alignments. But then that
virtue is lost long time back.*

*In this hour of grief we are with the family of the victims. May God give
them power to overcome this grief .We at Roots in Kashmir will do our best
to ensure that the family gets justice. Although we are in exile,yet we
mourn alongside the family of the victims.

The need of the hour is that the Chief Minister personally meets the family
and apologises for his errant comments and asks the commission to submit a
report in a time bound manner and then act fast to punish the culprits of
this sick crime. It may not bring them their dear ones back but at-least it
would restore the confidence of the people in the State.
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*Aditya Raj Kaul*