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INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2005 Jammu and Kashmir<br />
Srinagar succumbed to her injuries that<br />
she received in ruthless beating by the<br />
police during lathi charge on the<br />
demonstrators during the day. 104<br />
On 2 July 2004, Hasina Akhtar, a 10th<br />
standard student of Government Girls’<br />
High School, Zachaldar, was arrested by<br />
sub-district police officer Altaf Ahmed<br />
Khan and his junior, assistant subinspector<br />
Tanveer Ahmed accusing her of<br />
being involved in the killing of a security<br />
<strong>for</strong>ce official. The girl was allegedly<br />
severely tortured in custody and later<br />
admitted to a Srinagar hospital with<br />
“serious multiple injuries.” She was<br />
suffering from lash wounds, broken bones,<br />
and damaged tendons and muscles. 105<br />
Although Major Rehman Hussain was<br />
exonerated from the rape charges of the<br />
wife and 10-year-old daughter of one<br />
Abdul Rasheed Dar in Bader Payeen-I<br />
under Handwara tehsil in Kupwara<br />
district106 and punished <strong>for</strong> using <strong>for</strong>ce with<br />
the intent of outraging their modesty, 107<br />
most cases of violence against women<br />
including rape, went unpunished.<br />
At about 4.30 p.m. on 1 January 2004,<br />
a migrant woman labourer from Bilaspora<br />
in Uttar Pradesh was allegedly raped by a<br />
BSF personnel, Sepoy Ram at Singhpora<br />
village in Baramulla district. 108<br />
On 28 February 2004, a teenaged girl<br />
was allegedly abducted by a militantturned-counter-insurgent<br />
Manzoor Ahmad<br />
Dar from her Tenkpora Sumbal in<br />
Srinagar district and was raped several<br />
times. Two days after the rape, she<br />
<strong>report</strong>edly set herself afire. She suffered<br />
98<br />
80 per cent burn injuries. After battling <strong>for</strong><br />
life <strong>for</strong> eight days at the SHMS Hospital,<br />
the victim succumbed to her injuries on 9<br />
March 2004. In her dying statement<br />
be<strong>for</strong>e Ghulam Nabi Shah, Station House<br />
Officer, Sumbal she <strong>report</strong>edly stated that<br />
Dar who is also her neighbour had raped<br />
her. 109<br />
On the night of 17 April 2004,<br />
constable Davinder Singh posted in<br />
Thanamandi area of Rajouri district was<br />
<strong>report</strong>edly arrested on charges of raping a<br />
10-year-old orphaned girl. He allegedly<br />
brought home the girl, whose parents were<br />
killed by AOGs, promising to marry her<br />
and raped her <strong>for</strong> two days. 110<br />
On the night of 5 May 2004, the<br />
troops of the Rashtriya Rifles allegedly<br />
molested a woman and beaten up residents<br />
of the Choon village in Budgam district<br />
following an incident of stray firing by<br />
members of an armed opposition group.<br />
The state government ordered an inquiry<br />
into the incident. 111<br />
On 14 May 2004, a jawan belonging<br />
to the 30th Rashtriya Rifles allegedly<br />
<strong>for</strong>cibly entered into the house of Abdul<br />
Rashid Malik at Marat village on the<br />
Mawar-Handwara road of Kupwara<br />
district and attempted to rape 18-year-old<br />
Rubiya, who was alone at home at that<br />
time. The jawan <strong>report</strong>edly grabbed her<br />
but let her go and fled the scene when<br />
people came rushing hearing her scream.<br />
The guilty security man was arrested and a<br />
case was registered against him. 112<br />
In the evening of 10 September 2004,<br />
four jawans of the Central Reserve Police