This week yet another incident of sexual exploitation of a child has surfaced, which has shaken the nation to its core. An 8-year-old girl named was brutally gang-raped and murdered in the town of Kathua, in the month of January. The girl was a member of a Bakarwal Muslim community, residing in Rasana region of Kathua district who were nomadic pastoral tribes. During one of her pastoral ventures, she was allegedly kidnapped, held captive, starved, sedated and raped repeatedly by 8 men, in the Culvert region of a Hindu temple. The aftermath which followed the incident was unforeseen and rather…
