(AP)The rape of a three-year-old girl in Kashmir last week triggered violent protests in the Valley on Monday and prompted a rare call for the imposition of Shariah law so that the perpetrator could be stoned to death. Sectarian tensions have gripped the Valley since the May 8 rape of the Shia girl in Sumbal, Bandipora. North Kashmir deputy inspector-general of police Suleman Choudhary said Mir had been arrested and charged with rape. Times like these, Shariah law seems apt so that such paedophiles are stoned to death,” she tweeted. Mufti Nasir-ul Islam, chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Personal Law Board and the Valley’s Mufti Azam, echoed Mehbooba’s call to say there was a need to enforce Shariah law in such cases.

Source: The Telegraph May 14, 2019 02:15 UTC