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NCW & NHRC not for AminaYousaf
Guided by community considerations?
For about six months there had been a great commotion, violence and strife in Shopian in Kashmir valley over the alleged ‘rape and murder' of two women, But this time there is not a ripple in the peaceful waters of the Dal Lake in Srinagar where a Jammu-based businessman Rajneesh Sharma was found hanging inside the lock-up bathroom of the Munshi Bagh police station on October 5, 2009. But Jammu is seething with anger. According to reports, Rajneesh was picked up by the Kashmir police on September 30 from the Jammu residence of his elder brother, Pawan Sharma, an employee of the State Road Transport Corporation. He was the only bread-winner for the family. His brother Pawan has not received pay for the last over five months.
The newly-wedded Valley woman who married the Jammu youth has alleged that her family and police joined hands to eliminate her husband in police custody.
The human rights organizations, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the National Commission for Women (NCW) are maintaining a dubious silence over this custodial death. Had it been the other way round, hell would have been created not only by the people in the Valley but also by these two constitutional bodies.
Rajneesh's ‘crime' was that he had married Amina Yousaf on August 21 after she converted herself to Hinduism against the wishes of her family. An FIR was lodged by Amina's parents alleging abduction of their ‘minor' daughter by the Jammu-based family.
On the other hand, Amina, who rechristened herself as Aanchal, has alleged that her brothers had abducted her husband from Jammu on September 30 with the help of Kashmir police. Though the police knew they were taking Rajneesh Sharma with them, they mentioned the name of Pawan Sharma in police records to mislead the probe. She says: "My father who works with the Vigilance department knows how to twist the law. He must have bribed the policemen to kill my husband". She added: "My parents killed my husband. My brothers were also involved in the crime as they were all opposed to my relationship. Within a month of my marriage I became a widow because of my own family. They brutally tortured my husband and killed him in cold blood". A wailing Aanchal murmured before the cremation. (The Pioneer)
Last update : 16-10-2009 18:09
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