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On National Highway 44 that extends across the length of India from Srinagar to Kanyakumari, about 50 kilometres south of Jammu, an easy-to-miss left turn leads to Rasana — the village where an 8-year-old Bakarwal girl was raped and murdered in January, the brutality of which has evoked global outrage.
The road is narrow, lonely and bumpy with at least knee-high grass on both sides. About 1.5 kilometres in, outside a temple, a policeman stopped our car and asked, “Where are you going?” I responded, “Rasana”. “Oh! Jahan kaand hua hai (Oh! Where the scandal has happened)”. The policeman noted down
