Kashmir is seething with anger over the mysterious death of 20-year-old Aaliya, who blew the lid off a sex scandal in the Valley.
SRINAGAR: Kashmir is seething with anger over the mysterious death of 20-year-old Aaliya, who blew the lid off a sex scandal in the Valley.
The Jammu and Kashmir police have exhumed her body from the local graveyard at Soura where she was buried last month in a hush-hush manner to cover up the incident.
“We have exhumed the body of Aaliya from her grave to ascertain the exact cause of her death. She had died under mysterious circumstances and it is necessary for us to know what led to her death,” said Syed Afad-ul-Mujtaba, senior superintendent of police, Srinagar.
Aailya had died at her home a day after she approached an NGO, Forum against Social Evils (FASE), and exposed the misdeeds of Sahiba alias Gypsy alias Madam X, who allegedly used to force force Kashmiri girls prostitution and sell them to brothels outside the state.
“On December 10, Aailya narrated her woeful tale at a seminar organised by the Kashmir Bar Association. She was illegally confined by Sahiba in a house for 25 days.
She was drugged and subjected to physical and mental abuse. Aailya told us she gave Sahiba a slip after she came to know that she was being sold for Rs50,000 to an outsider”, said Parvez Maqbool Shah, general secretary of FASE.
On December 11, FASE approached the chief judicial magistrate court and was expecting Aaliya to depose before it, but she did not turn up. It was later known that she had died. The role of Sahiba cannot be ruled out in her death because she wanted to destroy the evidence,” said Shah.
Police have arrested Sahiba under the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act (PITA), NDPS Act and Illegal Confinement Act. According to FASE, when the police arrested one Sabina, 32, for running a sex racket involving politicians and senior police officers, Sahiba, 32, was shown as a victim of sex abuse.
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