THE NASTY INCIDENT!

      On the night of February 23-24, 1991, a Battalion of the 4th Rajasthan Rifles 68th Brigade conducted a cordon-and-search operation in the adjacent Kunan-Poshpora villages in Kupwara of Jammu and Kashmir.

What happened after that has remained a subject of rage and fury, allegations and denials, claims and counter-claims. Villagers have alleged that army personnel raped anywhere between 23 to 100 women repeatedly through the night. If true, this would make it the single biggest instance of sexual violence by the state forces in India’s history. The Army has denied the accusation, calling it baseless and a malicious lie. The case has never been investigated to its logical conclusion through established process.

But a door for truth and justice may finally have.

     The committee felt that the “delayed medical examination” proved nothing; there was no medical report but only “women’s say so”, and a “torn hymen”, as in the case of three unmarried women, could be a result of “natural factors, injury, pre-marital sex or rape”.

     A local police constable, Abdul Ghani, who was from the village and accompanied the Army column, claimed he had “seen nothing”, but “heard cries of women”. The committee found it suspicious that the same constable signed the NOC and reported nothing to his superiors. opened up.

     The magistrate has also said that “circumstances” revealed an “unbreakable chain to put suspects on trial”; and that there was a “presumption in a gang-rape in favour of the victim”. This principle, a little more sensitivity, and commitment to finding out the truth needs to guide the police’s investigations, for, the villagers of Kunan-Poshpora, India’s armed forces, and citizens deserve to know what happened that fateful February night in snow-bound Kashmir.  

     My friends, this kind of incident makes so much angry with that Army soldiers.  The Army's duty is giving protection to the country people. But they destroyed hundreds of women by rape. This kind of nasty incident spoils the image of Indian Army.  The Indian Army must avoid this kind of nasty performance in future days. 

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