J&K protest: Girl denies molestation

According to a police statement, the victim girl has the same things to say before the CJM which she had narrated in the video shot on the day of incident.

“Girl (name withheld) was produced along with her father before the Chief Judicial Magistrate Handwara and her statement was recorded in case FIR Number 130/2016 under section 354, 341, 509 RPC of Police Station Handwara,” police said on Sunday.

"In her statement before the Judicial Magistrate she revealed that on 12-04-2016 after school hours while proceeding to her home with her friend she entered in a public lavatory near main chowk Handwara for answering the call of nature," the police said.

"As soon as she came out of lavatory she was confronted, assaulted and dragged by two boys and her bag was snatched. One of the boys was in school uniform,” said girl in a statement.

The production of the girl along with her father before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Handwara was to comply the order of the Hon’ble High Court J&K yesterday on a petition filed by the mother of the girl seeking their release.

It is noteworthy that the girl’s mother on Saturday claimed that her daughter was put under pressure to give a statement in favor of police and army.

Three persons, including a 70-year-old woman, were killed when security forces fired at protestors in Handwara town on Tuesday.

A man was killed in Kupwara during protests against the Handwara firing the next day. On Friday, was killed while three others sustained bullet injuries when army personnel fired at stone-throwing protestors outside a camp in Nathnusa area of Kupwara.

(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)