Incident Triggers Protests; Police Register Case
Kupwara, Mar 27: Massive protests broke out in Tikker area here on Sunday after police recovered a throat-slit body of a 6-year old girl.
Locals told Greater Kashmir that the family of six-year-old Ishra, daughter of Muhammad Shafi Malik, grew apprehensive and started looking for her after she failed to return to her room from a washroom, located near their house, at around 9:30 PM on Saturday.
To their shock and horror, they located Ishra’s throat-slit body outside the gate of a nearby Middle School, they said.
The incident triggered massive protests in the area. Hundreds of men, women and children took to the streets to protest against the incident. “We want justice. The killers of Ishra should be identified and punished,” they shouted.
While the district administration and some senior police officers tried to pacify the protesters, they refused to give up.
Ishra’s father, Muhammad Shafi, said: “My daughter studied in first standard in a local government school. I am not able to understand why someone would kill her.”
Shafi, a contractor, said: “After taking dinner, Ishra went to the washroom located in the premises of our house. After 10 minutes when she didn’t return, we thought she is sitting with her grandmother. But she was not there. We launched a search and found her throat-silt body near the gate of Middle school Tikker, which is located some 70 yards away from our house.”
Hundreds of people from Tikker and its adjoining areas participated in the funeral prayers of Ishra this afternoon.
Beating her chest, Ishra’s mother said: “Whom should I blame for her murder. She was innocent.”
The Senior Superintendent of Police, Kupwara, said “it is a case of homicide and we have registered FIR vide No-64/11 under sections 302 and started investigations.”
“We have deployed sniffer dogs, which will help in tracing the weapons used in murdering the girl,” he told Greater Kashmir.
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