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NDTV Correspondent, Sunday September 27, 2009, Srinagar

Monday is a crucial day for the Shopian case, when the bodies of two young women alleged to have been raped and killed, will be exhumed in Jammu and Kashmir. But this comes in the midst of startling confessions from a doctor who was part of the team that conducted the second post-mortem. Agency reports suggest she has confessed to swapping the vaginal samples of the victims.

Bail for 4 cops in Shopian case

NDTV Correspondent, Friday September 11, 2009, Srinagar

The J&K High Court has granted bail to four policemen arrested for their alleged involvement in the Shopian rape and murder case. Former Shopian SP Javed Iqbal Mattoo, deputy SP Rohit Basgotra, SHO Shafiq Ahmed and SI Gazi Karim were all arrested on July 15 for destroying evidence in the rape and murder of two women.

J&K Additional Advocate General sacked

NDTV Correspondent, Friday August 28, 2009, Jammu

In a fresh development in the Shopian rape and murder case, the Jammu and Kashmir government sacked the state's Additional Advocate General on Thursday evening. The development came shortly after the hearing of the bail application of two policemen in connection with the case.

Shopian case: J&K HC’s nod for CBI probe

NDTV Correspondent, Wednesday August 19, 2009, Srinagar

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has said it will not stand in the way of a Central Bureau of Investigation probe in the Shopian alleged rape and murder case. However, the court wants a senior ranking officer to head the probe.

Uproar in J&K Assembly over Shopian case

NDTV Correspondent, Wednesday August 12, 2009, Srinagar

There is uproar in the J&K Assembly over the Shopian rape and murder case. The opposition parties - PDP and CPI-M – have raised the issue of DNA samples of the rape victims being fudged. Some National Conference MLAs also demanded that the case be handed over to the CBI. Mehbooba Mufti accused that people at the highest level are involved in fudging samples of the two women who were raped and murdered in Shopian.

Mehbooba does it again

Press Trust of India, Wednesday July 29, 2009, Srinagar

Opposition PDP on Wednesday rejected the clean chit given by CBI to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in the infamous 2006 sex scandal case and demanded a judicial probe into the issue. The demand was made by PDP members in the state assembly when Speaker M A Lone told the House that "we have received a clarification from the CBI that Omar Abdullah's name does not figure in the list of accused in the case".

Centre, CBI say Omar not an accused

Barkha Dutt, Nazir Masoodi, Tuesday July 28, 2009, Srinagar, New Delhi

India almost saw its youngest chief minister quit his post on Tuesday. Angry and hurt after the opposition accused him of being investigated in a sex scam, Omar Abdullah stormed out of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly saying, he wasn’t willing to tolerate the slur on his name.

Omar resigns, Governor asks him to continue

Press Trust of India, Tuesday July 28, 2009, Srinagar

On a day of high drama, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday tendered his resignation to Governor N N Vohra asking him to go into a senior PDP leader's allegation of his involvement in the 2006 sex scandal and accept it if he was guilty.

'It is for the Governor to decide'

Press Trust of India, Tuesday July 28, 2009, Srinagar

National Conference President and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday dismissed speculation of him becoming chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir again after his son Omar Abdullah dramatically resigned saying it is "not true".

A troubled tenure for Omar

Randeep Handal, Tuesday July 28, 2009, New Delhi

On Tuesday, Omar Abdullah reacted emotionally to a PDP slur. But it’s been one crisis after another for India's youngest chief minister as soon as he took office.