Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership has said that the brazen of of lawyers preventing the police from filing the chargesheet in the Kathua rape and murder case has taken lid off the lid of their anti-Muslim mindset.
The JRL comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik in a statement has said that the Kashmiri Leadership and the people of Kashmir will always stand by them and stand up for the Muslims of Chenab valley and Jammu.
“Whether it is the issue of justice for Asifa or any issue related to injustice or harassment of the people of Jammu, Chenab Valley, Rajouri and Poonch at the hands of fanatic elements who belong to a particular community.Kashmiri leadership and the people of Kashmir will always stand by them and stand up for them”.
JRL also termed move of blocking crime branch officials from filing challan against the accussed in Kathua rape and minor case by lawyers as ploy to drive out Gujjar community from their land.
“And it seems that it’s that motive of intimidation and displacement of the Gujjar community from their land,which is driving these people to such shameless and highly condemnable actions,” JRL said in a statement.
Terming move of Kathua based lawyers as “shocking and morally bankrupt”, JRL said there will be hardly any place in world where efforts will be made by section of people to shield the culprits involved in a minor’s child’s rape and murder.
Lawyers in Kathua on Monday tried to prevent the Crime Branch to file the chargesheet in the rape and murder case of the an eight year old girl. However the police, after calling reinforcements filed the chargesheet.
The Jammu and Kashmir police have registered a case against the lawyers for obstructing Crime Branch from filing charge sheet in Kathua rape and murder case at the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Kathua, on Tuesday.
Nine accused, including the alleged mastermind Sanji Ram – an ex-bureaucrat – and his son vishal Kumar, a police head constable, two SPOs and a sub-inspector of police, have been arrested in the case.
Ram surrendered before the police on March 20. His surrender came after the arrest of his son Vishal – a BSc Agriculture student -from Meerut area of Uttar Pradesh.
Ram, said to be linked with the Hindu Ekta Manch, allegedly motivated special police officer Deepak Khajuria to kidnap, rape and murder the eight-year-old victim with the intention of driving out nomadic families of Muslim origin from Jammu’s Rasana village.
Earlier, it came to fore that how the police had initially botched up the probe by destroying crucial evidence.
On January 17, body of minor girl was found in the forests near Rasana, Hiranagar. The girl had been missing for a week. According to police, she had been abducted and raped by an SPO Deepak Khajuria, who was a part of the team sent out find her when she was missing.
The investigation of the Crime Branch further revealed that she had been drugged so that she couldn’t cry for help.
On January 23, the Mehbooba Mufti government had ordered a probe into the incident, and subsequently handed over the case to the Crime Branch of police. Several people including two policemen have been arrested so far for involvement in the crime.
However, Hindu Ekta Manch has been protesting in support of the arrested policeman, demanding transfer of the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation.The Chief Minister has already condemned the rallies being held by Hindu Ekta March and also said that raising the tricolour in such rallies amounts to desecration.
