Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 11: Scores of people today held a protest against the rape of a three-year-old girl in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district.
Protestors assembled at Press Enclave here and demanded severe punishment to the guilty, who is already in police custody. The protestors were holding placards and banners that read “hang the culprit” and “girls are not toys”. Amid sloganeering, the protestors demanded a speedy trial of the case. Click here to watch video
The people demanded exemplary punishment to the accused. “Only beasts can do such acts. We want the Government to permit us to try the culprit in the local court and punish him as per the Shariah law,” a protestor said, adding we are unable to fathom the reasons behind the delay in bringing the culprit to the book.
They alleged that some people are trying to shield the culprit by showing him a minor. “He is not a minor, but some people are trying to shield the rapist,” locals alleged, adding that the Governor should take personal interest in the case.
According to police, the incident took place at Malikpora, Trehgam area of Sumbal. Police in its FIR had said the accused was 20 years old.
Acting on the complaint of the victim’s family, police arrested the accused, identified as Tahir Ahmad Mir (20), son of Abdul Rehman Mir resident of Malikpora, Trehgam, Sumbal.
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