Handwara molestation row: Girl not welcome by classmates

April 21, 2016 09:52

The ordeal is not over for the 16-year-old girl, whose allegation of being molested by an army man sparked violent clashes in Jammu and Kashmir's Handwara, leading to the death of four protesters, and imposition of an eight-day curfew.

The teenager faces stiff hostility at her school from classmates suspicious of her recorded statement that later cleared the army of the charges and instead pinned the blame on two locals who she said sexually assaulted her on her way back from a toilet.

Schools opened in the small town, torn by violence, yesterday, and at the Government Girls Higher Secondary School in Handwara, only 20 students out of the 1,150 were present.

The teachers are worried about her future and the principal has assured that she will be given all the help needed to return to her normal life of a teen, but her classmates are not so sure. "I don't think she will ever come back to this school," a classmate, who refused to be identified, said.

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