Stepmother instigates gangrape of minor girl

There has been widespread outrage in Jammu and Kashmir over the alleged gangrape and murder of a minor girl by four persons, including her step brother. The crime was instigated allegedly by her stepmother, who also oversaw it, the police said, adding that all the five accused have been arrested.

The gruesome incident is reminiscent of the gang- rape and murder of an 8- year- old nomad Bakarwal girl that took place inside a temple in Rasana village of the State’s Kathua district and which had evoked a nationwide outcry.

Director General of Police, Shesh Paul Vaid, on Wednesday tweeted, “A bone chilling story of gang rape and murder of a 9 year old girl in # Uri by her step brother and 2 other accused instigated by her step mother. A case worse than ….. of Rasana Kathua. @ JmuKmrPolice has solved the case and arrested all the accused”.

The police said that the 9- year- old girl of Larri Trikanjan village of Boniyar in Uri area in north- western district of Baramulla went missing on August 23 following which her father Mushtaq Ahmed Ganai filed a complaint with the police. On Sunday ( September 2), ten days after her disappearance, the mutilated and partly decomposed body of the girl was found in woods barely a kilometre from her home in Uri. The police utilised quadcopters, sniffing dogs and other resources to trace the body.

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