Srinagar, Saturday, 05 October 2013: Indian troops abducted a 35-year-old woman, who was at her father's home in Zalgam Kokernag,in Islamabad (Anantnag) was abducted by an men in uniform and taken to nearby forests.
The survivor, who is a mother of three children, said: "At 1:00 AM on Saturday late night, I came out in the compound of my father's house. Suddenly, men in army uniform, appeared and whisked me away. I tried to shout, but I couldn't. They took me to the jungle," the woman, who was not in a position to speak in detail, said.
She gave birth to her third child about twenty days ago, her family said.
As soon as the news spread in the village, people came out and held protests. There was a complete shutdown in the area and people were demanding inquiry into the incident. Protests erupted in a South Kashmir village against the abduction and molestation of a woman by Indian army uniform during the intervening night of Saturday, locals said.
Nazia, mother of three, from Zalangam village in South Kashmir said she was kidnapped by two men wearing army uniform on Friday night which she was coming out of the toilet in the front yard of her maternal house.
“Men wearing combat uniforms blindfolded me and forcibly took me to a nearby forest. They molested me on way and tried to tarnish my chastity in the forest. They talked in Hindi and one of them was wearing black specs,” she said.
The survivor said last month she surgically delivered a boy and, ‘it probably was this surgery which stopped those beasts to tarnish my chastity’. She added the ‘attackers hit her chest and one of them even directed his companion to kill her’.
The woman who is married to a man in Bijbehara said ‘for a moment she was sure those beasts would kill her’. “They molested me repeatedly and it was only around 5 in the morning that they left me. I managed to reach a place where a woman helped me to reach my house,” she said.
Her father Abdul Aziz Ganaie demanded stern punishment to the culprits and demanded to ‘expose those beasts’. “I was anxious when my daughter did not return from bathroom and raised an alarm.”
The residents had formed groups and started searching the woman in and around the village but to no avail. “We all were shocked to see her and burst into tears when she narrated her woeful tale,” her father said.
He added: even after informing the Station House Officer about the incident the police took no pains in tracing his daughter.
“The men were wearing Amy uniform, black shoes and were speaking Hindi,” Ganai said, quoting his daughter. She said that she was released only after the men got a phone call from somebody. Meanwhile, police have also registered an FIR into the matter.