Two girls jumped off a moving car in the Langate area of Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district after the vehicle’s driver and his colleague allegedly tried to molest them.
Sources said that two teenage girls were waiting for a vehicle in Kralgund Handwara to reach home and in the meantime an unknown car stopped and offered them a lift.
They said after covering some distance, the driver and his colleague allegedly tried to molest them, however, they jumped off the moving vehicle in order to save themselves from molestation.
While talking to Media, both the girls are safe and have got minor scratches during the escape of rescue and the treatment is going on, they said
Meanwhile, police confirmed the incident and said that they have launched a man hunt to nab the accused. “A case FIR No. 33/2023 has also been registered.
Crime rises in Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu Kashmir, as per official records, reported as many as 278 cases of sexual abuse against children in the year 2022, 168 of them were reported from Jammu district alone.
Data suggests, there were 859 cases of POSCO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) pending before the designated courts of the erstwhile state of Jammu Kashmir, as on December 31, 2022.
Only 72 of the 278 new POCSO cases that entered the court system in 2022 were successfully resolved. This suggests that, despite an increase in sexual crimes against children, justice is not being served to the victims quickly enough.
