In an atonement against the Kathua gang rape, noted Malayalam writer and Sahitiya Akademi award winner, K P Ramanunni, today performed a symbolic 'Sayana Pradakshinam' (prostration) at a temple in nearby Chirakkal today.
This was a penance against the brutal rape and murder of the 8-year-old muslim girl inside a temple at Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir in January this year, the writer said.
The girl was allegedly raped by six men who had held her in captivity in a small temple village for a week.
She was allegedly drugged so that she could be sexually assaulted again before being bludgeoned to death, according to police. Yuva Morcha activists had gathered at the Sree Krishna temple in large numbers to prevent him from performing the 'sayana pradakshinam.'
Yuva Morcha said the writer's act was only a 'political stunt.'
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