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Writer Rita banerji Decodes the Chargesheet of Asifa Rape case and its disturbing
On Tuesday, an FIR was registered against lawyers who attempted to prevent the police from filing chargesheet in the Kathua rape and murder case in Jammu and Kashmir, as the investigation came close to a conclusion.
“The FIR has been lodged into the incident wherein some lawyers tried to obstruct the presenting of the chargesheet by the crime branch in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate at Kathua on Monday. Action under law will be taken against those found involved in the incident,” Director-General of Police SP Vaid said.
Earlier Senior Journalist Madhu Kishwar Reveals the Big Plot behind Horrific Kathua Rape case
Now Rita Banerji A Writer, Feminist, Author of book Sex and power and founder of 50 Million Missing An Award-winning campaign to end India’s genocide of women due to feticide, infanticide, dowry murders, honor killings, have done 1 hell of an analysis on charge sheet filed by the Police which raises many crucial doubts not only on the investigation but also on the motive. Here are the Series of with Media Reports, Videos, Statements and much more
Just like I did with the Delhi bus gang rape & murder, I am following the investigation on #Asifa‘s case closely. And like the Delhi police, the J&K police have mucked this up too. This chargesheet is full of holes! https://t.co/QooCOnZ9J6
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 12, 2018
1/ So according to this detailed investigation, #Asifa was repeatedly sedated as she was raped over 7 days. And for some reason, the strip of tablets she was drugged with was, as per police report, “kept under a heap of garbage near an electric pole outside the Devisthan.” What?
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 12, 2018
2/n Report says accused “washed the clothes worn by” #Asifa at the time of her death “to remove the clay and blood stains/sperm” before forensic tests. Did they put it back on her? Do forensics confirm this? And what about forensic report on fluid, hair & evidence on & in her?
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 12, 2018
3/n J&K police say “one of the hair strands recovered from the Devisthan matched with the DNA profile of Victim #Asifa which confirmed that the victim was kept in captivity at Devisthan.” She was gangraped & tortured for 7 days in this place & they got ONE hair strand?
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 12, 2018
4/n The police says it has DNA & physical evidence. But the only thing I read in the chargesheet is they got one strand of #Asifa‘s hair from the temple where she was kept, raped & tortured for days, & NOTHING from forensics & autopsy! How’s that possible?
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 12, 2018
5/n There is a picture of #Asifa‘s mother weeping before her supposed school uniform. Yet NYT reports her father as saying she was not sent to school but her brothers were.
The TRUTH is : an 8yr-old girl was brutally killed regardless of what she was.https://t.co/akEH8yKtcU pic.twitter.com/nA2aiFy5uT
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 12, 2018
6/n #TriggerWarning for these next tweets. They are pictures of #Asifa after her body was found, and they contradict the police report on her. The media has jumped on the communal bandwagon & when it needs to totally SCRUTINIZE the police investigation here!
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 12, 2018
7/n
1. Who took these pictures of Asifa when she was found in Jan, weeks before any police action? Not her grieving parents. The angles & framing of these pictures indicate a professional photographer. Who made the poor mother sit away while they clicked these pictures? pic.twitter.com/ujoIWXIdu4— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 12, 2018
8/n The pictures show #Asifa‘s face, body & hair dusty and covered with mud. But police report says she was kept & abused INSIDE the temple premise, carried outside, kept on an accused’s lap & strangled & then her body dumped in the forest. So where did all the mud come from?
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 12, 2018
9/n Most importantly, the police report clearly states that #Asifa was strangled and “in order to make sure that the victim is dead, hit her twice on head with stone…” The media’s been repeatedly saying her head was smashed in but the pictures clearly show that it was not.
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 12, 2018
10/n What really is crucial forensics evidence is found in her father’s statement below on the condition the family found #Asifa‘s body in. But oddly no mention in the police & assumedly forensics report of bite marks on her lip (DNA source!), electrocution, her legs broken. pic.twitter.com/vHy3rh79K4
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 12, 2018
11/n This news report says #Asifa‘s “blood-soaked clothes were washed before they were sent to a forensic lab.” The pictures don’t show her clothes as blood-soaked. But what’s critical is what the autopsy shows which the police report says nothing about!https://t.co/8DuN4BpnTw pic.twitter.com/t88SNROoYT
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 12, 2018
12/n Some Other things that are unclear. Why no media mentioned that #Asifa was adopted? Or why most media drop Poojwala from her adoptive father’s last name? Or if #Asifa‘s own parents have been informed? Or how Pujwalas own two daughters died?
https://t.co/BgWBrPQb2N— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 12, 2018
13/n Police behaved strangely in this case from the start. Not taking action when #Asifa was reported missing however is normal for Indian police all over. What was strange is the police put a look out notice in the newspaper four days after her family found and buried her! pic.twitter.com/NF8L1drVDZ
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 12, 2018
14/n I will continue with my analysis of the police mess up of #Asifa‘s case later. But here is the thread to my analysis of how the Delhi police & power corridor messed up investigation of the Delhi Bus Gang rape case. https://t.co/mDvf2Httgb
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 13, 2018
15/n Why should #Asifa‘s adobtive parents be investigated & eliminated as suspects in her disappearance & murder? Because it’s standard procedure for all competent & professional police forces to first check people closest to the victim. It’s how any blind investigation begins.
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 13, 2018
16/n As head of @50millionmissin & having worked on mass Femicide (female genocide) in India, we know that most of the 7million girls killed in the age group 1-6yrs in India, are killed by their own family.Yet police rarely even investigate these crimes! https://t.co/4UO1sYWtZP
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 13, 2018
17/n Listen to #Asifa‘s father. He says the Hindu-Muslim politics divert from justice. He says he does not want a kangaroo court. He says all he wants is for a proper police investigation (which he has not got) so there can be #JusticeforAsifa. https://t.co/E72nMNERNl
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 14, 2018
18/n It’s strange that the police charge-sheet on #Asifa‘s case says NOTHING about her parents testimonies on the state of her body. Nothing on her being tortured by electrocution on her thighs, hands and cheeks. Or there were bite marks on her body. Or that her legs were broken
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 14, 2018
19/n. The electrocution is evident even in the pictures of her. Why does the autopsy report not mention these? Why has the police not established when, where, by whom, and with what equipment #Asifa was electricuted? Does the temple have electricity?
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 14, 2018
20/n What is curious is that we are constantly hearing from news reports that #Asifa was held captive in a temple for a week, where she was repeatedly raped. Yet we do not see any photos of this scene of crime in any media channel, which is strange. Well except one – India Today.
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 14, 2018
21/n The only pictures of this temple I found. One bare room w/concrete floors, 2 doors w/ see through grills. Outside there’s a jungle. Worshippers visit temples everyday. Herders & villagers passing can see everything inside. Could #Asifa be hidden, electrocuted & raped here? pic.twitter.com/pmXTIIV1Ly
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 14, 2018
22/n Another discrepancy is in the timeline of death. In the police report (1st tweet) #Asifa was killed on 14, ie 3days before she was found on 17Jan. But her adoptive father in this video says she had been killed less than 24hrs when they found her. https://t.co/F7lLVoRgP4
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 14, 2018
23/n What’s also interesting in the video in 22 is how the adoptive father explains that soon as they found #asifa they told the police & police came with media! IS THIS POLICE PROTOCOL? In the pics the body was not cordoned off & photographers were free to trample all around! pic.twitter.com/JrECcvNodu
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 14, 2018
24/n *Trigger Warning* Even more shocking. The police allowed these media people to handle #Asifa‘s body & shoot this video, which clearly intends to incite public anger, & w/the pictures the video was put out on local media in Kashmir the very next day.https://t.co/kVZNA7Tk9t
— Rita Banerji ✍ ⚖ #AadhaarWarOnWomen (@Rita_Banerji) April 14, 2018
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