Srinagar: Two physicians were fired by the Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday for "actively working" with organisations based in Pakistan and manipulating evidence in the "Shopian rape-murder" case from 2009.
On May 30, 2009, the bodies of two women, identified as Asiya Jan and Neelofar, were discovered in a stream near Shopian, sparking rumours that they had been raped and murdered by security forces.
Protests broke out after the tragedy and nearly brought the region of Kashmir to a halt for 42 days. The investigation was then taken over by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which determined that neither woman had been raped or murdered.—Inputs from Agencies