14 YEAR OLD RAPED AND MURDERED IN UTTARKASHI. PROTEST DEMONSTRATION BY LOCALS DEMAND ARREST OF CULPRITS

What’s happening in Uttarakhand? Where is the law and order machinery? What’s happened to the law inforcing agencies? Where are those sitting at the helm of administration and political power?

The most shamful and obnoxious rape and thereafter a gruesome and diabolical bludgeoning of a mere 14 year old adoloscent in Uttarkashi makes us all hang our heads in shame.

Once called the land of abode of Gods, the land of four globally famous ancient CHAR DHAMS : KEDARNATH, BADRINATH, GANGOTRI N YAMNOTRI where throng hundreds of thousands of pilgims from all around the world is today a safe haven for criminals from outside Uttarakhand carrying out their highly suspicious obnoxious criminal activities like sexual assaults on women, girls, children, murders, kidnappings and mass scale thefts and decoities as well.

Never had Uttarakhand ever witnessed such shameful incidents of women insecurity and terror of criminals in the otherwise peaceful valleys of this himalayan state.

What makes things even more worrisome is the fact that political parties in the name of developing and enhancing their vote bank pockets are allowing illegal people from outside the state who possess highly suspicious backgrounds and also in some cases non Indian identities to settle in various parts of the himalayan state.

On the top of that while the present political dispensation have been accusing the previous Congress government for this mischief they themselves are now not able to either eradicate / evict them from the state or identify them transparently to nail them when such diabolical and obnoxious crimes are committed.

These criminal elements having no definite identity or living proof etc dissappear cladestinely after committing crimes in the hill areas and the local police, the intelligence department which is already ignorant and complacent has no idea as to where these criminals dissappear or elope after the commissioning of such serious crimes.

The recent most sensitive incident of the obnoxious rape and subsequent diabolical murder reminds us of the abominable incident of Kathua where in similar situation a liltle girl was raped and killed most horrendously raising a nationwide outrage for the arrest and giving the culprits or human beasts stringent punishment under the relevant sections of the law.

Why are the intellectuals, journalists, right thinking people, NGOs, women activists groups, political leaders and workers and media silent now. What’s making them shy to come out and raise their voice against this most shameful diabolical murder after rape of a hapless n innocent 14 year old girl.

This is not the first incident that has happened in Uttarakhand in the recent time but the shameful incidents of Kirtinagar, Satpuli, Jehrikhal and incidents of alleged missing of several girls in Kumaon division of Uttarakhand last year compounded with several other cases of clandestine Kidney sales and transplants etc have literally made the land of Uttarakhand a hell which once used to be called a literal heaven on earth. Now enough is enough.

Those at the helm of power in Uttarakhand should tighten their belts to evict the criminals taking shelter here most expeditiously and the government of the day should commence identifying the outsiders in the state possesing the shabby, suspicious and criminal backgrounds, particularly at the decentralised level in the interior towns and districts of Uttarakhand before its too late.

Meanwhile the state government should the get the case of the rape and the diabolical murder of the 14 year old Uttarkashi girl tried under the fast track court at the earliest to enable early punishment to the accused.

Uttarakhand Journalists Forum condemns this most henious crime on strongest possible terms and demands that the state government fights the case with full might to ensure expeditious capital punishment to the culprits.

According to the latest news all the four culprits have been arrested who were from outside the state probably from Bihar as being reported in a section of the media.