*Khandwa:* As the anger and outrage over the brutal gangrape of an8-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua boils over, a BJP leader hasintroduced a bizarre theory to shift the blame for the communalisation ofthe case.
Nandkumar Singh Chauhan, BJP’s Madhya Pradesh chief, said that he believesthat Pakistan has engineered the whole incident.
“If the Jai Shri Ram slogans are raised over the rape of nation’seight-year-old daughter in Kashmir, then Pak agents would have donesomething so that they created rift among us,” said Chauhan on thesidelines of a BJP fast organised in his home district of Khandwa.
The BJP MP chief went on to claim that Hindus comprised only 1 per centpopulation in Kashmir and they can’t even speak, so there was no questionof them raising slogans to demand release for the accused.
“If state like Kashmir is witnessing something like this, then there couldbe involvement of Pak agents,” he said.
The eight-year-old girl was kidnapped and held captive from a village inJammu’s Kathua district on January 10. She was starved, sedated andrepeatedly raped inside a ‘devisthan’ before being murdered and dumped in anearby forest.
The chilling details of the crime were revealed in the chargesheet filed onMonday. It has evoked nationwide horror. Eight men have been arrested forthe crime.
The gang-rape and murder of the 8-year-old wasn’t a regular crime, policesaid. It was a rape inflicted with purpose – to fulfil an agenda, to instilfear and drive away a few nomad families from their lands. Rape, here wasdeliberate and used as a weapon.