Shopian tragedy: Asiya, Neelofer die every day for us, says family

Shakeel (husband of Neelofar) and her 3 years old son praying for her on her grave at her 3rd martyrdom anniversary

The family of Neelofar and Asiya Jan, the Shopian women, who died mysteriously except for Central Bureau of Investigations CBI, says that justice has been brazenly denied.

“Two years have been completed since my wife Nelofer and sister Asiya Jan were killed and there is no day when we don’t remembered them, they die every day for us,” Shakeel Ahmad Ahanger, head of the victim family, says.

“We futilely went to every forum for justice,” he adds.

Shakeel also hit at mainstream as well as the separatist parties in Kashmir.

“While government sabotaged the entire incident, the face of those who claim to be inheritors of martyrs was also bared. Martyr dies for their family only,”

Meanwhile, the Shopian district observed strike against the alleged rape and murder of the two women in 2009.

The bodies were recovered on May 30, 2009. While people maintain that the sisters-in-law were raped and murder, the Central Bureau of Investigation claimed that the duo died of drowning.