On the afternoon of October 31, Shabir Ahmad Bhat was travelling on his bike to Qazigund for some work. Halfway through his travel, Bhat got a call from one of his cricket associate friends telling him that they found his sister Sobia (name changed) in an orchard. Next thing, Shabir could think of was to turn back and call his elder cousin brother Gowhar Ahmad Bhat asking him to rush to the spot. Gowhar reached the spot in village Ashmuji and instead of taking unconscious Sobia to the hospital, he took her to Devsar police station to report the happening.
As per reports, two youth from Ashmuji had kidnapped Sobia and then raped her in the orchard. “It was a deserted area with a gorge nearby, far from the locality. Initially, a Gujjar labourer who was digging for stones in that area had found Sobia covered with blood and lying unconscious on the ground. He informed some local boys who were playing cricket in the nearby ground,” Gowhar said.
“Seeing her condition and the situation, it was obvious that it was not the road accident but a heinous act.” Gowhar showed photographs recorded in his phone, which show Sobia lying lifeless at the spot when he reached there.
Bhat said he refused to recognize his sister when he saw her. “The marks of strangulation were evident around on her neck, her eyes and ears were bleeding. There was swelling all around, she was drenched in blood, the only thing visible on her face was the nose,” Bhat said.
From police station, they took Sobia to Anantnag district hospital where she was referred to SKIMS, Srinagar. Weeks later she succumbed to her injuries.
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