The CBI has filed charge-sheet in a Srinagar court against six doctors, five advocates and two individuals for preparing false reports with regard to the Shopian case, which had triggered protests in the Kashmir valley. The six accused, have been charged with fabricating evidence and inducing and threatening the and implicating the police and security personnel in a false case of rape and murder of two women. The CBI says that according to medical and forensic findings, the two women were not subjected to sexual assault but had died due to drowning. The CBI probe revealed that the DNA profiles on the slides sent by the doctors of Pulwama District hospital did not match with those of the women. The investigation also proved that the advocates, in league with some individuals, threatened the witnesses to make false statement as parts of conspiracy to defame the security personnel and get them convicted. The investigations had also revealed that four arrested police officials as well as security personnel deployed at Shopian were in no way directly or indirectly involved with the incident. It may be recalled that a report was filed about the two missing women on the 29th of May last year and their bodies were recovered from a nallah the next day. The Jammu and Kashmir government had requested the Centre to get the case investigated by the CBI.<br/><br/><br/>
News On AIR | December 17, 2009 2:41 PM
CBI files charge-sheet in Shopian case