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| Activists make Sonia to skip Srinagar | | | ABID SHAH
EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, May 29: Somehow Congress president Sonia Gandhi's decision to confine her today's visit to Jammu alone and keeping off from a stopover at Srinagar has come at a time when the Shopian case completes a year.
It was on May 28, 2009 when two young women from Shopian had disappeared. A couple of days later their bodies were found. And this had led to allegations of abduction rape and murder.
The fact that the incident becomes a year old now was pointed out by a group of prominent rights activists here yesterday when the postponement of the UPA chairperson's visit to Srinagar after a jaunt by her at Jammu could well have been opted for.
These activists have expressed their dissatisfaction and displeasure over the probe in the Shopian case. They have issued an open letter to Chief Justice of India, Chairmen of National Commission for Women and National Human Rights Commission.
They have raised questions regarding the final probe conducted by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the death of the two women Aasiya Jan and Nilofar Jan. Their letter questions the CBI claim of drowning to be the cause the death of the two women, saying how anyone could get drowned in the shallow waters of Rambi Ara Nullah which was barely knee deep.
They also ask how the recovery of the bodies took so long when they were picked up from near a floodlit bridge in a high security zone where intensive search was undertaken by police, family members and friends of the victims through the night without any result and the bodies were found only next morning. They have also raised questions about the third postmortem that the CBI got conducted after exhuming the bodies and its findings.
Some of the activists and organisations who have issued the letter are Dr Ajita Rao, Delhi; Akhil Katyal, London; Shabnam Hashmi, Delhi; Akshara, Hyderabad; Anomita Goswami, Delhi; Anuradha Bhasin, Jammu; Anusha Hariharan, Delhi; Arati Chokshi, Bengaluru; Arti Sawhny and Kiran Dubey, Ajmer; Aryakrishnan Ramakrishnan, Thiruvananthapuram; Ashley Tellis, Hyderabad; Bindu Menon, Delhi; Chinmay and Saroj Mishra, Indore; Deepak Srinivasan, Bengaluru; Dunu Roy, Delhi; Gautam Bhan, Delhi; Indu Jain, Delhi; Indu Prakash Singh, Delhi: Jaya Vindhyala, Hyderabad.
Their letter has been posted through websites and has been up since yesterday when the postponement of Sonia Gandhi's Srinagar visit was decided. Though the reason for the postponement of Srinagar visit by Congress chief has been attributed to the infighting among Congressmen in the Valley, yet the fact that her visit coincides with the first anniversary of the Shpoian case has been missed by her party managers until such oversight was spotted, courtesy the activists.
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