‘Army killed this 12-year-old girl when she was giving water to an injured relative’

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July 10, 2018

Srinagar, Jul 10: The people of Kashmir and the family members of the 12-year-old Andleeb Ali, who was shot dead mercilessly by the army in Kashmir’s Hawoora village on July 7, are questioning the Indian government what was the crime of victim?

"She was neither a militant nor a stone pelter, why was she killed?” wonders the father of Andleeb Ali. The class VII student and two other boys from the same locality were killed when soldiers opened fire during a protest.

Recounting the tragic day, her father Ali Mohammad Aliee said: “We were working in the lawn when suddenly firing began. Andleeb and my elder daughter asked me to run as they feared the army may harm me.”

“Outside our home, the army had shot at several boys and one of them was 19-year-old Shakir Khanday, our relative. As soon as my daughters came to know, they rushed towards the road with a glass of water and tried to help Shakir. But the army men didn’t tolerate this and they directly fired at my daughters,” Aliee said as mourners continued to visit the family.

While Aliee’s elder daughter escaped unhurt, the younger one was hit on the thighs. “While Shakir died a few minutes later, Andleeb was profusely bleeding. The army didn’t allow the ambulances to move in the area and some of the neighbours took my daughter on a stretcher to a hospital, 3 km from our home. By the time they reached the hospital, she was dead,” he said and burst into tears.

Aliee called it a "targeted killing" and questioned the army's tactics. “Is helping an injured person a crime for which he or she should be killed? And the army didn’t stop after killing my daughter. They ransacked our house. Everywhere in the world army is meant for fighting the enemy on the border. But in Kashmir, they treat 12-year-old kids as the enemy and show their might over them. If the Indian Army is so strong, let them fight with the enemy on the border and not against unarmed kids.”

Andleeb was a brilliant student, her teachers said. She always topped the class and was also a unanimous choice for the class prefect. She had aspired to become a teacher.

“I don’t know how I would be able to sit in the classroom without her by my side. She was very friendly and would help us with studies,” said Ruvaida Amin, Andleeb's friend and classmate.

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Wednesday, 11 Jul 2018

Many innocents are dying, being killed without reason. For sure, there is a day of resurrection. All the dead people will be resurrected on that day & every one will be questioned for their deeds in this world. Allah will decide who has to go to hell & heaven. No criminals will be escaped on that day.

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January 11,2020

New Delhi, Jan 11: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the curative petition of two death row convicts in 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape case on January 14.

A five-judge Bench of Justices N V Ramana, Arun Mishra, R F Nariman, R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan will hear the petition filed by Vinay Sharma and Mukesh.

The duo had moved a curative petition in the top court after a Delhi court issued a death warrant in their name and announced January 22 as the date of their execution.

Besides them, two other convicts named Pawan and Akshay are also slated to be executed on the same day at 7 am in Delhi's Tihar Jail premises.

They were convicted and sentenced to death for raping a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in the national capital on the night of December 16, 2012.

The victim, who was later given the name Nirbhaya, died at a hospital in Singapore where she had been airlifted for medical treatment.

A curative petition is the last judicial resort available for redressal of grievances. It is decided by the judges in-chamber.

If it is rejected, they are legally bound to move a mercy petition. It is filed before the President who has the power to commute it to life imprisonment.

The court after issuing a black warrant in their name gave them two weeks' time to file both the curative and mercy petition.

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February 13,2020

New Delhi, Feb 13: The BJP's Amit Shah today said statements like "goli maaro" and "Indo-Pak match" should not have been made by BJP leaders ahead of the Delhi elections.

The BJP may have suffered in the elections because of hate statements made by party leaders, he said, reported news agency Press Trust of India.

The party, he said, had distanced itself from such remarks.

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May 20,2020

Washington, May 20: The United States recorded another 1,536 coronavirus deaths over the past 24 hours, the Johns Hopkins University tracker said.

That figure, tallied as of 8:30 pm (0030 GMT), raises to 91,845 the total number of COVID-19 deaths in the US.

The US tops the global rankings both for the highest death toll and the highest number of infections, with more than 1.5 million cases.

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