Srinagar, Wednesday 12 August 2009: The Jammu and Kashmir government today decided to handover the double rape-cum-murder case of two women in Shopian to the CBI.

Sources in the government said that a decision to this effect was unanimously taken by the government.

The decision came hours after Opposition parties created ruckus in the state Assembly alleging tampering of the DNA test reports in the case, leading to suspension of the Question Hour.

While insisting on a debate on the issue, PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti supported by her party members and CPI (M) members raised the issue as soon as the House met for the day. Some NC members too demanded a debate on the matter.

Speaker M K Noor suspended the Question Hour and allowed a discussion after his repeated requests that the issue be raised after the Question Hour failed to evoke a response.

Minister for Public Health Engineering Taj Mohiuddin tried to pacify the agitated members but in vain. He said reports appearing in newspapers of the alleged fudging cannot be termed authentic.

“We cannot rely on newspaper reports. We are trying to investigate. The matter is subjudice,” he said.

However, the Opposition members continued with their protests, terming it as a “serious issue”.Official sources yesterday said that the two slides of vaginal swabs sent by the Special Investigating Team to the CFSL do not match with that of the two victims — Neelofar and Aasiya raped and murdered in Shopian.
(Agency)