Handwara girl: Gave statement to J&K police under duress

Handwara girl: Gave statement to J&K police under duress

FPJ BureauUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 03:20 PM IST
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Srinagar: A schoolgirl, whose alleged molestation by a soldier on April 12 led to violence in her native Handwara town in Jammu and Kashmir, on Monday said her denial statement on the incident to the police was made under duress.

She said a soldier had held her hand, following which she panicked and ran out of a public bathroom in Handwara. Protests by locals in Handwara followed the alleged molestation. Five protesters were killed in subsequent clashes with the security forces. She told the media here in the presence of her parents that she was kept in a police station after the alleged incident against her will and forced by the police to record her statement. “Three policemen forced me to say things that they recorded and put on the Internet,” the girl said.

In the video clip shot inside a police station, the girl said she had instead been harassed by local boys on her way home from school. “They made me sign blank papers. I can’t write in Urdu. They made me write in Urdu and took my signature,” she said.

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