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INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2005 Jammu and Kashmir
Force allegedly barged into the house of
Bashir Ahmad at lower Munda of
Anantnag district and asked one of the
girls to come out. Seeing this, one Zubaida
wife of Bahadur Khan started raising hue
and cry that infuriated the CRPF personnel
and they started beating her along with the
other family members. The CRPF
personnel took away the girl along with
them and kept her in a nearby security
forces camp for the whole night. On a
complaint by the family members, police
rescued the girl and a case was registered
against the CRPF personnel but no action
was reportedly taken. 113
On the night of 27 October 2004, a
group of seven persons including two
jawans of the J&K Light Infantry
Regiment (JAKLI) and two J & K
policemen reportedly gang raped a 20year-old
girl hailing from Sopore at the
Sahara Guest House at Zero Bridge,
Rajbagh in Srinagar. The six accused
arrested by the police were reportedly
identified as Bal Krishan of 6th JAKLI,
Rakesh Kumar of 4th JAKLI, Ashwani
Kumar, Vigilance, Mushtaq Sadiq, Sanjiv
Kumar, a police man, and Shamas-u-Din, a
driver and Karnal Singh, a government
employee. 114
On 14 December 2004, army
personnel belonging to the Rashtriya
Rifles allegedly raped Sara Begum, wife
of Mohammad Din of Tanta in Doda
district and subsequently shot her dead in
the adjoining forest in Bhalesa village in
the district. 115
In the evening of 21 June 2004, two
Rashtriya Rifles jawans barged into the
house of Sadiq Shah at Sheikhpora-Sallar
under Pahalgam in Anantnag district. The
trooper allegedly pushed Sadiq Shah and
his two sons into the kitchen, while
another son was locked in the adjacent
room. They then dragged Hakim Jan to a
room and allegedly raped her. Police
registered an FIR. 116 In a summary court
martial instituted to prove the incident, the
accused trooper was exonerated from the
charges of rape but dismissed from service
and sentenced to one-year rigorous
imprisonment for misconduct and
indiscipline. 117
ii. Violence by the armed opposition
groups
The armed opposition groups
continued to target women because of their
gender.
On the night of 26 January 2004,
unidentified armed opposition groups’
members reportedly shot dead Hafiza
Akhtar, daughter of Abdul Rahman Mir in
Killer area of Pulwama district. 118 In
another incident, Nazira Bi wife of Faqir
Mohammad was shot dead by unidentified
AOGs at her family residence at Majra
Bambal, Dharamsal sector of Rajauri
district on the same night. 119
On 27 February 2004, Naseema was
allegedly shot dead by AOGs near her
residence in Mashwarad Rajpora of
Pulwama district. 120
On the night of 8 May 2004, armed
cadres reportedly tortured to death a 60year-old
widow Akbar Bi at her residence
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