Shah Abbas
Srinagar
Shopian Majlis Mashawrat, a citizen’s body fighting for the justice in Shopian alleged double rape and murder case has demanded public hanging of the accused of Delhi gang rape in Ram Lila ground.
Majlis on Monday organized a protest rally in south town exhibiting solidarity with the Delhi gang rape victim and her parents. Majlis said that Delhi gang rape is a handiwork of some individuals while as in Shopian tragedy state is directly involved.
“We are hopeful that the Delhi gang rape victim will get the justice because a few elements are involved in the heinous crime and they are already behind bars but as far as the case of Asia and Neelofer is concerned, state is directly involved, so the hopes of justice are bleak,” said Mohammad Shafi Khan, spokesman of the Majlis while addressing the protest rally. Khan once again rejected the CBI probe vis-?-vis Shopian tragedy, calling it a cover up to save the culprits.
While speaking to the people of cross sections of the society who participated in the rally brother of Asia and husband of Neelofar, Shakeel Ahanger said, “who else than me can feel the pain of Delhi gang rape victim, I show my solidarity with her and her parents, I repeat my appeal to the Indian civil society to support our demand of probing Shopian double rape and murder case by some international probing agency.”
All the majlis members were present in the rally with placards and banners in their hands asking for immediate hanging of the culprits of Delhi gang rape publicly in the Ram Lila ground. The protesters shouted slogans in favour of Delhi gang rape victim and against the culprits.
The Shopian Majlis-e-Mashawrat was formed in 2009 to highlight the alleged rape and murder of two young women in Shopian.
The Majlis has condemned the brutal gang rape of a young woman in a Delhi bus and expressed solidarity with the victim as well as the men and women who are leading the extraordinary protests against it.
While condemning the Delhi gang rape a statement of the Majlis said that such incidents are commonplace in Kashmir and have been for at least the last two decades.
“The purpose of our initiative is to try and demonstrate through the tragedy which had befallen us the larger environment of impunity for the brutalities (including rapes) of the Indian armed forces in Kashmir and how the government, judiciary and media shields the perpetrators,” a majlis statement reads.
The Majlis has hoped that the new movement against the rape culture does not fall back on one of the oldest excuses of patriarchy.
