The Jammu and Kashmir administration fired two doctors on Thursday for allegedly "actively working" with groups based in Pakistan and fabricating evidence in the 2009 "Shopian rape" case, according to officials.
When Asiya and Neelofar, two women from Shopian, were found dead in a stream on May 30, 2009, there were claims that security personnel had raped and killed them.
Kashmir was at a standstill for 42 days as a result of the case. After the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) began its investigation, the situation only improved. The investigation revealed that neither of the women had ever been raped.
According to the officials, the two doctors, Dr. Bilal Ahmad Dalal and Dr. Nighat Shaheen Chilloo, have been fired from their positions because they actively collaborated with Pakistan and devised a plan to falsify the post-mortem report of Asiya and Neelofar of Shopian, who tragically drowned in an accident on May 29, 2009.
They claimed that the two doctors' ultimate goal was to discredit the Indian government by falsely accusing the security forces of rape and murder.
What is Shopian rape case?
On May 29, 2009, Asiya Jan and Neelofar of Bongam, a Shopian nation, went to their apple orchard across the Rambiara rivulet. They unfortunately drowned when they slipped while crossing the river as they were returning home in the evening. The next morning, the bodies were discovered a little further downstream. The members of the family found the bodies.
The family members brought the bodies to their home with the assistance of the local police.
Dr. Chilloo, Dr. Dalal, and others devised a scheme to fabricate the victims' postmortem reports. The doctors prepared not one but four distinct post-mortems, each filled with contradictions and inconsistencies.
In addition, biological samples not associated with the deceased were fraudulently obtained and recorded. During the initial investigation, four police officers, including a district special police officer, were taken into custody. They were, however, erroneously implicated, as the CBI investigation revealed.
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