Angry villagers parade 2 armymen naked shaving their heads for alleged rape attempt in valley

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History says that women in war zones have been the soft targets. Is this happening in Jammu and Kashmir also? Anger villagers captured two soldiers of Indian army and paraded them naked with their heads shaved in Bandipore on Wednesday.

The villagers also smeared black paint on their faces and pulling them to nearly five kilometres. The villagers were angry on the allegation made by a poor Gujjar man in Pati Kunan village, Muhammad Rafiq Gojri that the soldiers had tried to rape his 17-year-old daughter.

The teenage girl told media:

The two soldiers, said to belong to the intelligence wing of the RR unit, entered her house on Tuesday afternoon and demanded food, pretending to be terrorists.

They asked my mother to leave the room and tried to rape me. But I resisted and raised an alarm and screamed. Neighbours rushed in and saved me.

According to the report, the horrified teenage girl confirmed that two men had come in the home on Tuesday. They asked her mother to go out of the house and tore her clothes.

After the complain, the villagers became angry and hundreds of people gathered near Pati Kunan in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. They caught the two soldiers named as Joginder Singh and Daljit Singh of 57 Rashtriya Rifles unit.
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Police used batons and fire bullets to take over the two Armymen from villagers’ custody. The angry mob was asking for the harshest punishment for those soldiers. During the clash between local police and protestors, at least two-dozen people were injured.

Later, the matter took a political turn and the incident rocked the political offices too. The chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was in fear for another round of protests in the valley over the matter.

He said later that the guilty would be punished once the local police will investigate the matter. He is already under pressure from his ally PDP to reduce the army presence from the valley.

The spokesman for the 15th Corps in Srinagar said on this matter that the Army would investigate the matter. In case of guilty, action will be taken as warranted under Army rules.

Brig. V. Garg, the area army commander, said that the two soldiers were on patrol duty and the civilians captured them Nonetheless, the army has initiated the investigation into the matter.


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