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Deeply Distressing: J-K CM on Budgam Minor Rape Case
Police said the girl vanished Saturday evening and was found about 200 metres from her home, with investigators treating the case as kidnapping, rape and murder.
- On Sunday, the body of a 12-year-old girl was recovered in Budgam, central Kashmir, after she went missing Saturday evening; police are treating the case as a suspected rape and murder.
- Budgam SSP Hariprasad K K reported the body was found at 7:15 AM Sunday approximately 200 metres from the girl's home, with police registering a kidnapping FIR Saturday night.
- Chief Minister Omar Abdullah called the incident "deeply distressing" and pledged full government support, while social welfare minister Sakeena Itoo visited the bereaved family to assure assistance.
- PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti termed the incident "shocking" and "unsettling," while Mirwaiz Umar Farooq demanded a "thorough, transparent and time-bound" investigation into the alleged rape and murder.
- The incident has sent shockwaves across the Valley, prompting calls for exemplary punishment and serious societal introspection regarding child safety amid deep community anxiety.
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Shocking, unsettling: Mehbooba Mufti over 'rape', 'murder' of minor girl in Budgam
Srinagar, May 24 (PTI) PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district was shocking, disconcerting and unsettling. “Devastated to hear about the cold blooded murder of a 12-year-girl in Budgam. The allegations of rape just make it all the more shocking, disconcerting […]
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