Brinda demands govt identify and punish those who allegedly

Senior CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat today demanded that the government identify and punish those who allegedly blinded a Kashmiri teenager, currently being treated at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here, by using pellets against the girl student.
In a statement, CPI(M) Politburo member Brinda Karat, who called on the victim Insha (14) at the hospital this evening, said it is a "national shame" that not a single of the security personnel has been identified and punished for "the cruelty of excessive" force used against the child yet.
"It is quite horrible...It is a national shame that not a single security personnel has been identified and punished for the cruelty of excessive force used against young people. There is no accountability for the use of excessive force.

"...Those responsible be punished and an end put to the use of weapons which blind and maim as in the case of this innocent young girl, Insha," the statement quoted Karat as saying.
Insha was admitted to the hospital on July 24.
She was blinded by pellets fired straight at her allegedly by armed security forces, "deliberately" aiming at her forehead, when she was looking down from the window of her two-storey house in a hamlet in Shopian district, the statement said.

Shopian is a part of the Valley which is in the grip of unrest following killing of a Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani last month.

Insha has had to undergo two surgeries for serious injuries to her forehead and eyes. But till now there is no recovery of her sight.
According to the statement, the doctors told Karat that the damage to both eyes is "extensive and she is unlikely to recover her eyesight".
However, the hospital authorities assured they would send her reports to international experts for a further consultation, it reads.
Insha's father, Mushtaq, a truck driver who himself was injured in a recent accident, has demanded justice for his daughter and punishment for those guilty, the statement said.