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#justiceforasifa #justice#for#asifa #killrappist Asifa Bano: Rape and murder of eight-year-old girl highlights tensions between Indian Hindus and Muslims As some denounce sexual violence and demand justice for Asifa's family, others demand justice for men accused Marwa Eltagouri Friday 13 April 2018 Activists of the National Panther Party have staged demonstrations demanding a CBI probe into the killing of Asifa Bano and the deportation of Rohingyas and Bangladeshi nationals She was an eight-year-old girl, who, while grazing her horses in a meadow in northern India in January, followed a man into the forest. Days later, Asifa Bano's small, lifeless body was recovered there. Police say that Asifa was given sedatives and for three days, raped several times by different men. Asifa was eventually strangled on 17 January, something police say would have happened sooner had one man not insisted on waiting, so that he could rape her a final time. To ensure she was dead, Asifa's killers hit her twice on the head with a stone, according to charging documents filed by police in the state of Jammu and Kashmir and published by the Indian news website Firstpost. READ MORE INDIA HAS A PRESS FREEDOM PROBLEM, WATCHDOG GROUPS WARN In the months since, Asifa's death has brought anguish to Kathua, the small town where she was killed. But it's also brought division. Asifa's case is the latest example of India's religious friction: as some denounce sexual violence and demand justice for Asifa's family, others demand justice for the men accused. The eight men accused of raping and killing Asifa are Hindu. Asifa was a Muslim nomad, part of the Bakarwal tribe. Asifa's father, Mohammad Yusuf Pujwala, told The New York Times that he believes his daughter was killed by the Hindu men for the sole purpose of driving her people away. To add to the volatility of Asifa's case, police say she was killed in a Hindu temple and that the temple's custodian plotted her death as a way to torment the Bakarwals. Asifa was the pawn. "A child of only eight years of age who ... became a soft target," police said. On Monday, a chaotic scene unfolded outside a courthouse in Jammu and Kashmir, as a mob of Hindu attorneys tried to physically stop police from filing charges against the men accused. The attorneys in a statement argued for a federal investigation, stating that the government had failed to "understand the sentiments of the people". Police still managed to complete the paperwork and charged the men, who include four policemen and a retired government official. Protests have now spread across much of Kathua. Hindu activists argue that some of the police officers who worked on the case are, like Asifa, Muslims – and cannot be trusted, according to The New York Times. Dozens of Hindu women have helped block a highway and organise a hunger strike. "They are against our religion," Bimla Devi, a protester, told The New York Times. She said that if the accused men weren't freed, "we will burn ourselves". The lawyers, along with a group affiliated with India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), fight on the basis of religious prejudice, even though BJP supporters are vocal opponents of sexual violence. After the brutal gang rape and murder of a medical student in New Delhi in 2012, the government promised to introduce legal reforms and support services to help victims of sexual violence. To an extent, it did – for example, the government amended the law to prosecute children older than 16 as adults in rape and murder cases. (Not much more has changed for rape victims, however, according to a November report by Human Rights Watch). Notable BJP members have asked the case be moved out of the state police's jurisdiction and into that of the Central Bureau of Investigation, claiming the agency would act neutrally. The Central Bureau of Investigation, however, reports to the BJP-led government in New Delhi. Asifa's case has shaken the state's Legislative Assembly. Weeks after her body