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The Kathua rape case involved the abduction, gang rape, and murder of an 8-year-old girl, Asifa Bano, by seven males (six men and a juvenile) in January 2018 in the Rasana village near Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir, India. A chargesheet for the case was filed, the accused were arrested and the trial began in Kathua on 16 April 2018.
The Army sources maintain that "any move to revoke AFSPA in Jammu and Kashmir would be detrimental to the security of the Valley and would provide a boost to the terrorists." [36] Former Indian Army Chief General V. K. Singh rejected the accusations that the action was not taken in the cases of human rights violations by Army personnel. On 24 ...
The Line of Control (LOC) is a military control line between Indian and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir. The line does not constitute a legally international boundary but it is a de facto border, designated in 1948 as a cease-fire line, it divided Kashmir into two parts and closed the Jehlum valley route, the only entrance of the Kashmir Valley.
The case was initially heard by the Sopore chief judicial magistrate and issued a notice to the army asking to produce involved people before the police. [4] The army declined to follow the court orders, leading the local court to transfer it to the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh which ordered the army to set up an army court inquiry.
The Shopian rape and murder case, also known as Asiya, Neelofar case, [1] [2] is the abduction, rape and murder case of two young women allegedly by the CRPF. [3] In mysterious circumstances between 29 and 30 May 2009 at Bongam, Shopian district in the Jammu and Kashmir state of India. Two women, who were sisters-in-law went missing from their ...
The Kashmir conflict has been beset by large scale usage of sexual violence by multiple belligerents since its inception.. Mass rapes were carried out by Dogra troops as well as Hindu and Sikh mobs during the 1947 Jammu massacres, [1] [2] and by Pakistani militia when the conflict broke out in 1947, including the Mirpur Massacre.
Sopore is a major town in Kashmir within the Baramulla district, located 50 km (31 mi) north-west from Srinagar.On the morning of 6 January 1993, a group of 7–8 armed JKLF militants attacked a platoon of Border Security Force soldiers at Baba Yousuf Lane near Sopore and killed at least one soldier.
Azad Jammu and Kashmir became a self-governing administrative division of Pakistan. Poonch District of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was divided between India and Pakistan. The Pakistani part of Poonch District is part of its Azad Kashmir territory, whilst the Indian Poonch is part of the Jammu and Kashmir union territory.