It took three months for the nation’s conscience to wake up to the grisly rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua, Jammu. Around the same time as when the Bakerwal girl’s body was recovered in January, another minor girl from Kulgam, Kashmir, came out with her story: she had been kidnapped, drugged and raped multiple times, and forced to be part of a sex racket.
Shockingly, in her case, too, there seems to be the involvement of a police official. She also spoke to the media and named a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) but his name was dropped in the court proceedings.
