Mohamed Ameen Dabhelia – 2018/05/08

The Supreme Court in India transferred the Kathua gang rape and murder case of eight-year old Asifa to Pathankot in Punjab.

The order came on the petition filed by the murdered girl’s father seeking the transfer of the case because of a threat to the family, their friends and their lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawat.

The victim disappeared from her home in a village near Kathua in the Jammu and Kashmir region on January 10. Her body was later found in the same area a week later battered and bruised.

Journalist Asma Raffat told Radio Islam that the case has exposed the tense divide in India.

“Between the majority Hindu and the minority Muslim population, all men accuse in the case are Hindu, and the radical Hindu nationalist has rallied to their defense.”

Raffat adds that the judiciary is favoring the majority Hindu population in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Listen to the full interview below: