Insha Mushtaq who lost her eyesight to pellet guns in the 2016 summer agitation in the wake of killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, has passed the class 12^th board examination recently.

The 22-year-old student secured 319 marks out of 500 in the Jammu & Kashmir Board of School Education. The Jammu & Kashmir Board of School Education declared Class 12 results on Friday.

Earlier, Insha had cleared the class 10 examination, two years after losing her vision. According to reports, Insha who belongs to a Sedow area of Shopian in South Kashmir, always got support from her family. Meanwhile, she never lost hope when everything around her seemed dark. Her determination led her to achieve success despite all odds.

In an interview with PTI, Insha said that she joined Delhi Public School, Srinagar after class 10. She qualified class 11 in 2021 and 12th this year. Furthermore, she also joined three-year course in Computer and English speaking. Speaking about her family, she said that her family wanted her to complete her education and always extended their support. Her parents encouraged her to study and become independent.

Insha also expressed her gratitude towards Jammu & Kashmir Centre for Peace and Justice, a non-government organisation for their support. She said the director of the NGO, Nadir Ali helped her in providing education and rehabilitation from 2018.

She has a great ambition to become an IAS officer. At present, she wants to complete her graduation and then join a coaching for UPSC preparation. She remarked that she wants to become an example for all the visually impaired persons and she wants each one of them to become independent and move ahead in life. She has emphasized on the need for a school especially for the visually impaired persons in different parts of the country. The lack of awareness in the Kashmir valley on the subject is the major reason due to which the visually impaired are falling behind, she continued.

Insha was hit by pellets on July 11, 2016, three days after Wani, the commander of a militant outfit was gunned down in an encounter with the security forces. She was at her home and had opened a window to look outside when the tragedy happened. The incident reportedly affected many other people.

An interesting case of honey trap has surfaced, when Gurugram Police arrested a man and a woman who were involved in extorting money from another man. The victim had filed a complained at DLF Phase-3 Police Station on Wednesday.

The accused have been identified as Benita Kumari and Mahesh Phogat.

As per the Gurugram Police, the victim met the Kumari on the Bumble App(a dating app). They decided to meet in a hotel located in Sector-23, Gurugram on May 28, the woman encouraged the victim for booze but he refused to drink beer and came out of the hotel immediately as he realized something was wrong.  

After sometime, the woman called the victim with motive to blackmail, she threatened the victim to file a false case against him based on misbehaved and molestation in Police station. Thereafter, to settle the case with the victim, she along with her companion demanded Rs 5 lakh from the victim and after negotiation it was finally settled for Rs 2 lakh.

On Wednesday, the victim gave Rs 50,000 to Phogat and assured him to give the rest of money in the evening. The victim realized he is getting trapped into something big, he went to DLF Phase-3 Police station and lodged a complaint.

The unusual case required different techniques to crack this case, the police laid a trap and arrested the man red-handed from Moulsari market near Sai temple while taking the remaining amount and also recovered Rs 50,000 which was earlier extorted by the duo criminals.  After Phogat’s disclosure, police nabbed Kumari from U-Block of DLF Phase-3 in Gurugram on Wednesday.

Vikas Kaushik, ACP (DLF) said both the accused became friend in Gurugram and planned to commit crimes. The woman works as an advisor in private IT company and Mahesh other accused runs an NGO in Delhi.

Kaushik said, both of them were running this racket to cheat people through dating App. They call their targets to the hotel and blackmail them to extort money from victims. The woman has filed fake molestation and rape cases against almost five people.

In a tragic incident in Uttar Pradesh, a bull was tortured to death by villagers. The incident took place in Ludhpura village of Bilsanda police station area. In no matter of time, the video went viral on various social media platforms. Multiple social activists and animal rights activists have expressed their anger over the incident.

Reacting to the incident, a social media user and a social activist urged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to take urgent steps regarding rise in animal cruelty in the state. The activist noted that atrocities on animal are increasing day by day addinf that there is a need for strict action and strict law.

In the video that went viral, a group of villagers can be seen tying a thick rope around the legs and neck of the bull. A villager was also seen pulling a rope through the nose of the bull in a playful manner. In addition, a rope was also fastened around the bull’s mouth while it was helplessly trying to escape from the trap. Succumbing to the injuries and pain, the bull eventually died a painful death.

Besides this incident, there are many other incidents of animal cruelty in Uttar Pradesh . A few months ago, a female dog and two pups were put in a cardboard box and were abandoned near a petrol pump in the Tedhi Bagiya area in Agra. Later a passer-by saw the box and opened it. At that moment, the female dog was unconscious while the pups were caught yelping.

Recently, the Bombay High Court in its ruling in another incident said that animals have emotions, feelings and senses similar to a human being. The court added that the only difference is that the animals cannot speak and therefore though their rights are recognized under the law, the cannot assert the same.