Shopian Rape: Court Reserves Order on ReinvestigationPlea The Jammu and Kashmir High Courthas reserved its decision on a petitionseeking reinvestigationof the alleged rape and murder of two women in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. Asiya Jan and Neelofar, sisters-in-law,were found on the bank of Rambiara Nallah in Shopian on May 30, 2009, evoking valley wide protests and demonstrations. The incident evoked massive protests across the valley as residents accused Indian security forces of the ‘rape andkillings’. The government constituted a SpecialInvestigation Team (SIT) and later handed over the case to India’s premier investigation agency – Central Bureau of Investigation. The CBI ruled out the charges against the men in uniform and claimed that the two women had drowned. However, the family of the women, the local residents and the separatist leaders outrightly rejected the report. Seeking reinvestigationinto the case on the analogy of probe in the Best Bakery Case in which the Supreme Court appointed a Special Investigation Team (SIT), counsel for the family of the two women, GhulamNabi Shaheen submitted that there were contradictions in the investigations carried out by SIT, CBI and the Commission of Inquiry headed by Justice Muzaffar Jan. The court however told Shaheen to submit written submissions in support of his contention within two weeks. Shaheen pleaded that given the dissatisfactionof the family with the earlier investigations,the court should order reinvestigationof the case through an agency comprising officials “whose integrity is above reproach.”
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:08:08 +0000
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