The gruesome rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua took place in January. That it took three months for a court monitored investigation to be completed, that lawyers from Jammu sought to prevent the police from filing the chargesheet and a crowd mobilised by the Hindu Ekta Manch shouted slogans in support of the accused even as counter protests were held in the Valley, speaks volumes for the steadily deepening jagged fissure that now exists between a so called ‘Hindu’ Jammu and a ‘Muslim’ Kashmir.
Uday Deb
The Kathua mindset has spread beyond Kathua. Criminalisation of politics has long been a feature of Indian public life, but the Kathua case has shown a politicisation of crime, by which the accused are Read More
