{"id":308256,"date":"2019-01-17T11:32:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308256"},"modified":"2019-01-17T11:32:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:32:28","slug":"as-cm-i-tried-to-ensure-justice-for-kathua-victim-bjp-backed-rapists-mehbooba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/as-cm-i-tried-to-ensure-justice-for-kathua-victim-bjp-backed-rapists-mehbooba\/","title":{"rendered":"As CM I tried to ensure justice for Kathua victim, BJP backed rapists: Mehbooba"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299974 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/18-mehbooba-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/18-mehbooba-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/18-mehbooba-444x420.jpg 444w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/18-mehbooba.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On the occasion of the first anniversary of the rape and murder of the eight year\u00a0 girl in Kathua in Jammu province, former\u00a0 J&amp;K Chief Minister and the PDP president Mehbooba Mufti\u00a0 has accused the former partner, the BJP of communalizing the issue and supporting the rapists at the time.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Taking to Twitter, Mehbooba said that as Chief Minister she had tried her best to ensure justice for the victim.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Today marks a year since the horrific rape &amp; murder of an eight year old girl in Kathua. Sadly, instead of condemning such a gruesome incident, BJP lawmakers staged protests in favour of the rapists. Even a crime like rape was communalised &amp; passions were stoked to justify it,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;As a CM I tried my best to ensure justice was done. Can only hope that the accused are punished severely so that no other girl has to endure such pain and trauma,\u201d Mehbooba said in another tweet.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The gruesome crime last year had shocked J&amp;K\u00a0 and the country. The girl had been held captive at a temple before being killed.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But when police arrested the alleged perpetrators,\u00a0 the crime soon assumed a communal colour.\u00a0 The then\u00a0 BJP MLA of the area Deepak Sharma visited Rassana later and held deliberations with the people of the one community only. Senior BJP leaders maintained silence over the issue even while the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti summoned\u00a0 the family of the girl to her office and assured them of the government support. Later, the two senior BJP leaders Chaudary Lal Singh and Chander Prakash Gang attended a rally at Kathua in support of the alleged perpetrators.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the first anniversary of the rape and murder of the eight year\u00a0 girl in Kathua in Jammu province, former\u00a0 J&amp;K Chief Minister and the PDP president Mehbooba Mufti\u00a0 has accused the former partner, the BJP of communalizing the issue and supporting the rapists at the time. Taking to Twitter, Mehbooba said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141,1224,1376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308257,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308256\/revisions\/308257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}