GCC condemns Srigufwara Woman’s gruesome murder, expresses concern over social disorder

STC NEWS DESK
SRINAGAR, JUNE 11 (STC): The Group of Concerned Citizens ( GCC) J&K has condemned the brutal murder of a woman in Srigufwara (Anantnag) today . Citing reports of a woman allegedly burnt alive in horrifying circumstances, the GCC in its statement said that the gruesome incident is yet another shocker after the recent rape-and-murder of an innocent minor girl in Galwanpora( Budgam) that retained public focus for some time before fading into silence. There is no official word either where the investigation , which ought to have been assigned to a Spl Investigation Team ( SIT) , is actually headed ?
“The issue before us is not only growing crime . It is as much our increasing indifference , as civil society , to an unfolding new social (dis)order. Acts of violence and crime of all hue –rape, murder, domestic violence , exploitation of women and children, alcohol addiction, drug abuse etc. do not materially change anything of our routine or business-as-usual. Repeated exposure to injustice no longer moves us as it used to. Suffering of fellow human beings, even if in close neighbourhood , seldom evokes an effective intervention. We must ask ourselves whether our collective conscience has gone numb” ? a GCC statement issued here today said.
The Group has expressed the hope of a thorough and time-bound probe of Srigufwara incident by a highly professional team and that the pepetrators are handed condign punishment under law . It has also urged an honest introspection by the public at large on the one end , and the clergy and community leaders on the other on ” our collective failure against crime and violence in general , and on women and children in particular “
(Straight Talk Communications)