Letting down Jammu

18/04/2018

The Government is maintaining double standards by rejecting the demand for Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) probe into Rassana rape-cum-murder of an eight year old girl by the PDP-BJP coalition Government notwithstanding, there has been overwhelming perception among the people of Jammu that only a CBI probe can give justice to the minor and her family as there has been history of Jammu and Kashmir Police and Crime Branch failures in many prestigious cases prompting the judiciary to intervene and handover the cases to the Central investigating agency. Even the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Opposition National Conference, which have been opposing, tooth and nail, the CBI probe demand into Rassana rape, obviously for political reasons, had been in forefront in raising such a demand for many cases in Kashmir or themselves handing over the cases to the CBI when they were in power. Significantly, not only the Hindus but number of Gujjar and Bakerwals including some relatives of the victim were of the view that only a CBI probe can bring out the facts in mysterious rape-cum-murder of little girl and give justice to her as well as her family, apart from eight persons including police personnel, who have been arrested and charged with rape and murder by the Crime Branch.
In 2009 much publicized case of the killing of Nelofar and Asiya in South Kashmir's Shopian district, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's PDP, which was in Opposition then, was in forefront in demanding CBI probe alleging that the girls had been raped and killed by security forces. Initially, the NC, which was running coalition with the Congress then headed by Omar, had ordered Judicial Inquiry into the killing by Justice Muzaffar Jan, but finally handed over the case to the CBI for "fair probe". The CBI had concluded that the girls had died of drowning and gave clean chit to all five police officers including then SSP ShopianJavedIqbalMattu, who had been victimized, arrested and suspended. In 2006 when PDP-Congress were running the coalition and National Conference was in Opposition, the NC had forcefully demanded handing over of Kashmir sex scandal to the CBI.
The PDP-Congress Government had handed over case to the CBI in which bigwigs like top bureaucrat, politicians, Advocates, security officers etc were involved. People here wanted to know from the PDP and NC that if their decisions to demand and order CBI probe into Shopian `killings' and Kashmir sex scandal were justified, how the demand for similar probe into Rassana incident can by unjustified? Isn't it double standards of PDP and NC? If the CBI probe suits them, they demand it or order it? And now since the demand has been coming from Jammu especially from the areas, where these two parties have very little or even no political ground, they are opposing it. But what has shocked the people of Jammu most is the "shameful stand" taken by the BJP, which has forced its two Cabinet Ministers to resign for supporting the demand of Hiranagar people for CBI probe into the killing. We had given BJP 25 out of 37 Assembly seats in Jammu region and both the Lok Sabha seats but look, how badly and miserably, they have let us down. They have brought shame to the people of Jammu by their stand of not supporting the demand of CBI probe and dismissing two Ministers under the influence of 'totally misleading coverage by Kashmir-centric national media' and to appease their coalition partner to stay in power.

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