Minor girl’s rape and murder in Gujarat; body found with 86 injury marks

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April 15, 2018

Amidst nationwide outrage over the brutal gang-rape and murder of a minor girl in a Kashmiri temple, another similar incident has come to light from Gujarat's Surat after the police and doctors confirmed rape on girl who was found dead with 86 injury marks earlier this month.

On April 6, a girl’s brutalised body was discovered by a passerby lying in bushes in Surat’s Bhestan locality. Postmortem report revealed that the girl was kept confined for eight to ten days, tortured and sexually assaulted. She had 86 injury marks on her body, the report said.

“The body was recovered by the side of a highway. The girl was sexually assaulted and murdered on April 5," city's police commissioner Satish Sharma told Reuters.

He added the victim — who was 11, has not yet been identified and that police from Gujarat's neighbouring states have been asked to help trace her family.

The incident comes at a time when the nation is witnessing widespread protests against the government's alleged inaction in the rape-and-murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district.

Meanwhile, authorities in Surat have launched a massive operation to ascertain the identity of the girl. A reward of Rs 20,000 has also been announced to anyone who has information on girl’s identity. Around 1,200 posters have also been circulated across the city for this purpose.

According to a report, the postmortem examination of the victim revealed that the girl had 86 injury marks on her body. It is believed that she was brutally tortured by her assailant for over eight to ten days before being murdered.
She must have been confined to some place and tortured by the assailant,” deputy commissioner of police, zone II, Vidhi Chaudhary said.

The postmortem examination revealed that the injuries were not fresh. The injury caused in her private parts was severe and had been inflicted a few days ago, police said. “It seems a stick like object had been inserted in her private parts. Like other injuries, the wound in her private parts is of a few days old. The girl was subjected to severe torture before being killed,” police said.

Police have registered a case of rape and also booked the unidentified accused under The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.

The incident in Surat bears a stark and a tragic resemblance to the rape-and-murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl who was brutally raped and murdered in January this year in J&K’s Kathua.

According to the chargesheet filed by the J&K police, a retired revenue official, Sanji Ram, hatched a plan to dislodge the nomadic Bakarwal community from Rasana area in Kathua district. To execute his plan, Ram took Special Police Officer Deepak Khajuria (Deepu) and his juvenile nephew in confidence.

Fifty-year-old Ram, along with his 19-year-old nephew and four others, including two special police officer abducted the victim when she had approached them to inquire about her horses.

For the next four days, the girl was repeatedly raped and tortured by Ram and his accomplices.

Her body was dumped in Rassana forest in Kathua district on January 15. Two days later, the body of the girl was recovered from the jungle on January 17, a week after she went missing while grazing horses in the forest area.

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May 30,2020

New Delhi, May 30: As the NDA government completes one year of its second term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi listed several achievements and initiatives taken by his government in the past year in an audio message addressed to the people of the country.

PM Modi said, "This day last year began a golden chapter in the history of Indian democracy. It was after several decades that the people of the country voted back a full-term government with a full majority."

"Your role has played a pivotal role in creating this chapter. In such a situation, this day is an opportunity for me to bow to the citizens of the country and the democratic ethos of our nation," said PM Modi.

"Had the situation been normal, I would have got the chance to meet you. Your affection and active support in the past year have given me new energy and inspiration. During this period, the way you have shown the collective powers of democracy, they have become an example for the whole world," he added.

PM Modi talked about several important initiatives taken by his government in 2014 as well as India's demonstration of its mettle through the surgical strike and airstrike.

"Six years ago in 2014, the people of this country voted to bring a major change in the country. You voted to change the country's policy and manner. During that tenure where surgical strike and airstrike took place, one rank one pension, one nation one tax GST, and better MSP for farmers were also fulfilled. That period was dedicated to fulfilling many needs of the country."

He further said that in these years the country has seen systems coming out of the quagmire of inertia and corruption. The country has seen governance change to make life easier for the poor.

"During that period, India's stature in the world increased. By opening bank accounts of poor people, by giving them gas connections, by providing free electricity connections, by building washrooms, by building houses, the dignity of the poor has also been increased," said PM Modi.

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June 16,2020

New Delhi, June 16: Tensions along the Line of Control border between India and China have spiked with an Indian army officer and two soldiers killed in the Galwan area of Ladakh, the Indian army said in a statement on Tuesday.

This is the first time in decades that a clash involving casualties has taken place on the 3,488 kilometre border between India and China.

"During the de-escalation process underway in the Galwan Valley, a violent face-off took place yesterday night with casualties. The loss of lives on the Indian side includes an officer and two soldiers. Senior military officials of the two sides are currently meeting at the venue to defuse the situation," said an official statement.

The two sides had made headway in talks last week with army chief General MM Naravane saying disengagement was in progress. The development had come after weeks of tension, including an incident in which patrolling soldiers from the two sides came to blows on the banks of Pangong Lake, resulting in injuries.

The two armies have since thinned out some forces in a positive signal but soldiers, tanks and other armoured carriers remained heavily deployed in the high-altitude region, an official had said.

India and China fought a brief border war in 1962 and have not been able to settle their border despite two decades of talks. Both claim thousands of kilometres of territory and patrols along the undemarcated Line of Actual Control - the de-facto border - often run into each other, leading to tensions. 

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where is our angry desh bakth RSS and sanghi...hiding in rat hole or @%#hole...now you can show your 56 inch chest to chinese...when pakistan destroyed our two fighter jet that time i relised we are making an monkey army not indian army...still time exist, still we have courage army...but we lack leader...we have maron PM...and some dog follower..they only know to bark in media and whatsapp...in reality they are just real na pustak...

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March 16,2020

Mar 16: A fourth batch of 53 Indians returned to India from Iran on Monday, taking the total number of people evacuated from the coronavirus-hit country to 389.

This comes a day after over 230 Indians were brought back from Iran to New Delhi and quarantined at the Indian Army Wellness Centre in Jaisalmer, the third batch to be evacuated from that country.

"Fourth batch of 53 Indians - 52 students and a teacher - has arrived from Tehran and Shiraz, Iran. With this, a total of 389 Indians have returned to India from Iran. Thank the efforts of the team @India_in_Iran and Iranian authorities," Jaishankar tweeted.

The Indians came in a Mahan Air flight that landed at the Delhi airport at around 3 am, officials said, adding that they were later taken to Jaisalmer in an Air India flight for being quarantined.

The first batch of 58 Indian pilgrims were brought back from Iran last Tuesday and the second group of 44 Indian pilgrim arrived from there on Friday.

Iran is one of the worst-affected countries by the coronavirus outbreak and the government has been working to bring back Indians stranded there. Over 700 people have died from the disease in Iran and nearly 14,000 cases have been detected.

Jaishankar had told Rajya Sabha last week that the government was focusing on evacuating Indians stranded in Iran and Italy as these countries are facing an "extreme situation".

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