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Saturday, April 14, 2018

Kathua rape, murder case

Kathua rape, murder case was a plot to dislodge Muslim Bakarwal community: J&K Police chargesheet

Crime Branch alleges that an eight-year-old girl was drugged, raped, starved and murdered in an attempt to drive the nomadic community out of Rasana village.


Fighting back protests by Jammu lawyers claiming that the investigation had been unfair, the Crime Branch of the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday filed its chargesheet in the Kathua rape and murder case. Eight people, including one juvenile, are named as the accused.

Scroll.in was able to gain access to a copy of the chargesheet, which gives details of how an eight-year-old girl from the nomadic Gujjar-Bakarwal community in Jammu was abducted in January, held captive in a local temple, drugged, raped repeatedly and then strangled. Her body was found in the forests near Rasana on January 17, a week after she went missing. It was, the chargesheet alleges, a plot to “dislodge the Bakarwal community in Rasana”, the village in Kathua district where the girl lived.
The nomadic Gujjar-Bakarwal community, who are mostly Muslim in these parts of Jammu, are a small minority in Kathua district. In Rasana village, which lies in the Hiranagar area of the district, the two communities regularly get into spats over land, damage to crops by the livestock of the Muslim herders and allegations of cow slaughter levelled by Hindu residents. The bad blood had already resulted in several first information reports in police stations in the area.
The eight-year-old child became a “soft target” in these tensions between the two communities, the chargesheet stated.

The accused

The main accused in the case is 60-year-old Sanji Ram, a retired government employee from Rasana. Four others are police officials: two are special police officers, Deepak Khajuria and Surinder Kumar, charged with direct involvement in the crime, while the two others include Hirangar station house officer, Anand Datta, and head constable Tilak Raj, accused of helping to cover up the crime.
At least two among the accused are believed to have held personal grudges against the Bakarwal community, the chargesheet says. One of them is Khajuria, who had got into a “few scuffles” with the Bakarwals.
The minor, who had been expelled from school for “unruly behavior” with female students, was “provoked and induced” by Ram, the chargesheet said. He could “take revenge on the Bakarwals who had earlier beaten him” while Khajuria could ensure he passed his board examinations by helping him cheat. Both Khajuria and Raj were opposed to the idea of the Bakarwals settling in the area and had already talked to Ram to “chalk out a strategy for dislodging” the community, the chargesheet says.
Also named are Ram’s son Vishal Jangotra, Ram’s juvenille nephew, and Parvesh Kumar, a friend of Ram’s nephew. All of them are residents of Rasana.

Seven days

During the week that the girl had been missing, the Bakarwal community alleges, the police had done little to find her. According to the chargesheet, she had been drugged and raped multiple times by at least three of the conspirators before being killed. It tries to reconstruct events of the week that followed her disappearance.
The police pieced together its case from DNA evidence, by analysing call detail records of the accused and from the testimonies of 130 witnesses. “The CDRs [call detail records] obtained have prima facie established the individual and common locations of all the accused in and around the scene of crime on crucial dates of occurrence,” it stated.
On January 10, the juvenile allegedly lured the girl into the jungles, where Kumar was waiting. The juvenile then forcibly administered “manar” – a local drug – to the victim. “The victim fell unconscious and was raped by JCL [the juvenile in conflict with the law],” the chargesheet said. “Thereafter, Mannu [Kumar’s nickname] also attempted to rape her but could not do it.”
It then describes how she was taken to a “devisthan” or temple in the village. On January 7, Khajuria allegedly procured the drugs that were administered to the girl by both him and the juvenile over the next few days. During this time, the chargesheet says, the girl’s hands and feet were bound with the drawstrings of her salwar and she was kept under a stringed cot, covered with mats to conceal her.
On January 11, the girl’s parents went to the temple and asked Ram about their missing daughter. According to the chargesheet, Ram told them “she will be back as she might have gone to some relative’s house”. In the afternoon, Khajuria allegedly forced two tablets of Epitril 0.05mg – a drug containing Clonazepam, used for treating seizures – down the girl’s throat.
Even as the police searched for the missing child in the area, apparently aided by Khajuria, Ram’s son Jangotra on January 13 allegedly raped the girl inside the temple, in the presence of Kumar. After this, the juvenile also raped her, the chargesheet states. The juvenile then directed the two to leave the temple and administered three tablets of Epitril, it adds.
That evening, when the juvenile informed his uncle the girl had been raped, Ram allegedly told his accomplices that the time “was ripe to kill her”, the chargesheet states, so on January 14 she was taken from the temple to a nearby canal by the juvenile and Jangotra.
There, Khajuria and the juvenile raped her before attempting to kill her, says the chargesheet. It says Khajuria attempted to kill the girl by strangulating her but was unable to do so, following which the juvenile killed her “by pressing his knees against her back and strangulated the girl by applying force on both the ends of her chunni”. It added that the victim was hit twice on the head with a stone in order to make sure she was dead. The stone, it says, weighed one kilogramme.
Medical reports suggested that the girl had been kept without food. The cause of death is said to be asphyxia leading to cardiopulmonary arrest.
On January 15, the chargesheet continues, Ram told his son and the juvenile that a man named Kishore had refused to bring a vehicle that would help them dump the victim’s body in a canal in Hiranagar. Ram then directed them to dump the body in the jungle as devotees were expected the next day for “faanda”, a ritual of exorcism, which Ram was to perform himself.
On January 16, the juvenile, accompanied by Jangotra, lifted the girl’s body on his shoulders and left it in the jungle, says the chargesheet. Later that day, Jangotra left for Meerut, where he is a student, and the juvenile confessed his role in the crime to another friend. On January 17, the girl’s body was found.

The cover up

On January 19, the police arrested the juvenile, who led them to six other accused. Ram finally surrendered on March 20. Initially, the chargesheet says, Ram wanted the juvenille to confess to having committed the crime all by himself, promising that “he would get him cleared from the charges at the earliest”.
Meanwhile, local police were allegedly aware of the event, the chargesheet says. The chargesheet states that Datta and Raj had struck a deal with Ram before the crime took place. The two were promised Rs 5 lakh promised in exchange for help in covering up the crime, of which they had already been give Rs 4 lakh. The police is still investigating all the financial transactions surrounding the crime.
The investigation found that Datta instructed the juvenile to implicate a Hindu herder from the Gadee community. Instead, he confessed his crime before Kathua district’s senior superintendent of police.
Allegedly, Datta had warned the juvenile against blaming the others in the case. On January 19, Datta and his security guards took the juvenile to the cowshed where the child was initially believed to have been held captive, and to the spot where she was found dead. At these places, Datta allegedly “staged” photographs to implicate the juvenile holding the stone and prepared a “Disclosure Memo” stating that the stone was recovered on the juvenile’s disclosure. “This all was being done by the accused SI Dutta in order to attach an element of truthfulness to his concocted story and in the process to create false evidence so that other accused could be screened from the grave criminal charges,” the chargesheet stated.
It also alleged that Tilak and Raj had washed the girl’s clothes to destroy any DNA evidence before forwarding them to the forensic science laboratory for examination. The chargesheet accuses him of destroying “vital evidence”. It also noted that Dutta, as an investigation officer in the case, remained “very casual” and left “serious criminal lapses deliberately in order to give undue benefit or to expunge the accused involved in the case.”
Despite Dutta and Raj’s efforts, it said, “FSL [forensic science laboratory] Delhi, with updated technology, was able to confirm the presence of blood stains on the Frock-Shalwar of the victim which matched with the DNA profile of the victim. DNA profiling also established presence of victim’s blood on the vaginal smears”.
All the accused have been charged under various sections of the Ranbir Penal Code, the criminal code that is operative in Jammu and Kashmir. All eight have been booked under Section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), Section 343 (wrongful confinement), Section 376 (gang rape), Section 302 (murder), and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and Section 363 (kidnapping).(Scroll.in)

Sunday, April 8, 2018

War on terror in J-K entered decisive phase: Dy CM

Jammu, Apr 8 :Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh has criticised separatists for maintaining silence over killing of innocent people by ultras and said the fight against terrorism has entered a decisive phase in the state.

He also opposed a dialogue with separatists who "stay silent when innocent people are killed and give a call for strike when terrorists are eliminated".

We have entered into a decisive phase in this war (on terror) the reaction (from the ground and across the border) was on the expected line but we are in control (of the situation), Singh yesterday told reporters at a function here.

He said those ready to surrender are given an opportunity to live a peaceful life but those adamant to fight are meeting their end.

Thirteen militants were eliminated (in a single day in south Kashmir on Sunday last) and another surrendered. It is not because of the weak policy, the deputy chief minister said.

The Opposition wants the government to initiate dialogue, he said, adding "(I want to ask) with whom. Those who are killing innocents or with those who are provoking youth for stone pelting through Hawala funding.

When an innocent is killed, the Hurriyat (separatist camp) maintains silence but when a militant is eliminated, it give strike call, he said.

The deputy chief minister accused the opposition of doing politics over its demand for holding of dialogue with separatists and Pakistan.
He said the government was dealing strictly with militants and to silence Pakistani guns along the borders .
However, the appointment of special representative on Kashmir Dineshwar Sharma is meant to involve those who are seeking solution of the problems through peaceful means, Singh said.

The deputy chief minister said Pakistan and terrorists are demoralised due to the successes of the security forces and the frequent cross border firing is an indication of this.

Pakistan is frustrated and so is its media and militants, he said, adding the Centre has extended the olive branch repeatedly to Pakistan but when it failed to understand the language of peace, we started reciprocating in the same language it understands .

Contrary to the stand of the previous UPA government, he said the Narendra Modi government has time and again extended the hand of friendship to the neighbouring country.

What we got Uri and Pathankot (terror attacks). Then we carried out the surgical strike If anyone wants peace, we will extend hand of friendship but if our peace move is sabotaged, we will not reciprocate with talks as terror and talks cannot go together, he said.

On April 1, security forces had gunned down 13 militants, including those responsible for the brutal killing of Lieutenant Umar Fayaz, in three counter-insurgency operations that also claimed the lives of several Army jawans and civilians in Anantnag and Shopian districts of Jammu and Kashmir.(PTI)

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Lt. Col. Umer Fayaz, the slain Army Lt Got A Brother, Parents Gave Him His Name

KULGAM: Seemingly, it is a reincarnation with a twist. The parents of Lt. Col. Shaheed Umar Fayaz, the slain Indian army lieutenant, were blessed with a boy today. They did not think twice and gave him their slain son’s name: Umar Fayaz.

Lt Umar Fayaz
Umer Fayaz Parray, 22, a resident of Sursandu, Kulgam, was kidnapped by suspected militants on May 9, 2017. He had gone to attend the wedding ceremony at his relatives home in Batpora Mantribug when three masked men took him away.
Next morning, he was recovered dead in the bus stand at Herman, a major village – now a tehsil, located between Sadsuna and Mantribug. As the residents drove him to the hospital, the doctor identified him and declared him brought dead.
The 22-year-old Umar Fayaz was survived by his parents Fayaz Parray and Jameela and two sisters. Less than a year after his killing, a brother was born to him. His parents gave the newborn his name: Umar Fayaz.
Umar Fayaz Jr was born in the district hospital Kulgam. Officials confirmed the birth saying the baby and the mother are doing fine. Fayaz, his father, is around.
“Thank God, I have a son whom I gave the name of my beloved son whom I lost,” Fayaz Ahmad Parray, the father of the kid, said. “It was a caesarean delivery. We admitted her to the hospital at 10 am and by 12 noon, the baby was born.”
Jameela, the mother, is being taken care of by her daughter, the younger sister of slain Umar Fayaz. “I had to give up my studies because of my brother,” she said. “I would have completed the graduation, only last year.” Her sister, however, is in the twelfth class.
A student of Navodaya Vidyalaya’s branch that operates from Ashmuquam in South Kashmir, Umer Fayaz He graduated from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi in 2015. He belonged to the 129th batch of cadets from Pune-based National Defence Academy. He was commissioned into the army on December 10, 2016. This was his first time that he proceeded on leave in his short carrier from Akhnoon, where his unit 2-Rajputana Rifles was deployed. He never returned.
Termed to be sports freak because he loved basketball, Fayaz was once expelled from school for playing cards.
The management later retained him on the plea of his father.
Post-2016 unrest, Umar Fayaz has become part of the narrative that Delhi has been building on Kashmir. In September 2017, Ms Paulomi Tripathi, First Secretary at India’s UN mission, showed pictures of Lt Umar Fayaz at UN General Assembly to counter Pakistan argument on Kashmir.

Ms Paulomi Tripathi, First Secretary at India’s UN mission, showing picture of Lt Umar Fayaz at UN General Assembly
“The Permanent Representative of Pakistan (Maleha Lodhi), in her statement (on September 23), yet again sought to divert attention from Pakistan’s role as the hub of global terrorism. She did so by callously holding up a picture of an injured girl. It was a photograph of Rawya abu Jom’a, a girl from Palestine…,” Ms Tripathi said. “In view of this cynical and misleading attempt by Pakistan, we are constrained to show this Assembly, a photograph that reflects the real picture of pain inflicted by the nefarious designs of Pakistan on India. This is a real and not a fake picture of Lt. Umar Faiyaz, a young officer from the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir.  Umar Faiyaz was kidnapped at a wedding celebration. He was brutally tortured and killed by Pakistan supported terrorists in May 2017.”
Interestingly, early this week, the army announced that two militants who were part of the group that kidnapped and killed Umar Fayaz were killed in Dragad, near Sugan.
The Commander of Srinagar based 15 Corps; Lt Gen AK Bhatt said the death of Lt Umar Fayaz, who was brutally killed in Shopian in 2017, had been avenged. “Among the militants killed are Ishfaq Malik and Rayees Thokar. They were responsible for his death,” Bhatt said.
Three days later, Umar Fayaz was born again. Reincarnation?
(Kashmir life)

Kashmiri youth beheading

No role in Hajin youth beheading, says Lashkar

‘It’s such a shameful, inhumane act''
Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti has strongly condemned the beheading of a youth of Hajin in Bandipora district who was abducted during Wednesday night.
In a statement, the Chief Minister said the inhuman way in which the youth was done to death is against the social ethos and cultural value system of people of the state.
The Chief Minister has conveyed her sympathies with the bereaved family. @OmarAbdullah
Any shut down call or call for “peaceful protests” for Manzoor Ahmed who’s decapitated body was found in North Kashmir after he’d been abducted & killed by militants? No? I’m not surprised.
“It is such a shameful and inhumane act that deserves more than mere condemnation. Lashkar-e-Taiba has always kept public posted about its activities. We have never subjected wrongdoers to such a punishment but have exposed them in public,” Lashkar chief Mehmood Shah was quoted as saying by the spokespersonDr Abdullah Ghaznavi, in a statement issued today.  
The outfit has said it will investigate the matter and bring perpetrators  to justice.