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| Chidambram says not surprised over Kashmir hardliners’ rejection of CBI report on Shopian | | Farooq questions human rights concerns of separatists | |
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Jammu/New Delhi, Dec 17: Saying that he was not surprised over the Kashmir hardliners rejecting CBI report in Shopian mysterious double-death case, the Home Minister P Chidambram said that the probe report can not be rubbished as eyewash.
In an interview to a news channel, Chidambaram said he was not surprised that the Kashmir hardliners rubbished the CBI report on the Shopian 'rape and murder' case.
'They wanted a CBI probe. Many groups asked for a CBI inquiry. What do we have except the CBI?' he said.
He said according to CBI, the women there were not raped but they had drowned.
To the High Court saying CBI report is not gospel truth, he said the court has reasons to ask questions on the report but someone who has got nothing to do with the investigation or police cannot stand up and say 'I condemn the CBI report'.
'You cannot say it is a whitewash,' he said.
Chidambaram condemned the killing of a 20-year-old girl by militants in Kashmir's Shopian district and urged the voices in the trouble-torn state to be united in decrying the killing of innocents.
20-year-old Sheeraza Akhtar was shot dead after militants at point blank range fired five times in her chest and abdomen at her Kellar residence in Shopian on Tuesday.
'I condem this brutal killing of a girl, obviously innocent. They entered her house, asked for her and when she came out shot her. This is not the first time they have done this. I can recall at least three incidents,' Chidambaram told the channel.
He said in April, June and July the militants killed innocent girls and boys.
'What have 17 year old girl or 18 year old girl or three year old boy got to do with militiancy,' he asked, saying the innocent children who are studying are being killed by the militants.
'It shows that the militants have no ethics and no scruples,' Chidambaram said condemning the incidents.
'What is strange is no organization so far has claimed responsibility for any of these incidents,' he said.
He extended his condolences for the victim's family and said J&K police should leave no stone unturned to bring the culprits to book.
He said the Hurriyat and other voices in Jammu and Kashmir should unitedly condemn these incidents of school going children being killed.
Meanwhile, the Union New and Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah has condemned the killing of a twenty-year-old girl on Tuesday (December 15) night by suspected militants in the Shopian town of Kashmir.
On the sidelines of a wind and biomass power generation conference in New Delhi on Thursday (December 17), Farooq Abdullah condemned the killing of Sheeraza Akhter and said that it is a shame that people shouting for human rights in Kashmir do not say anything about this killing.
"As far as Shopian rape case is concerned, we have not read the judgement, I can't comment on it. But I do feel sad that those people who are shouting for human rights all over the place are not speaking a word about the 21-year-old girl who was shot by the militants. It's a shameful thing," said Farooq Abdullah.
Shopian is already on the boil as, the CBI's report on the Shopian case had sparked off an agitation in the Kashmir valley on Monday, with the families of the two women who were allegedly raped and murdered in Shopian district of Kashmir, refused to accept the findings of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) report and burnt it outside the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
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