Pandit lady from Kashmir who was raped and killed by a carpenter. Girija Tickoo worked as a lab assistant at a Kashmiri government school.
Ever since launching in the theatres, The Kashmir Files has dominated the news. The film has received acclaim from reviewers and has astonished everybody with its box office sales. The film focuses on the exodus and genocide of Kashmiri Pandits during the Kashmir Rebel movement in 1990 and is created by Vivek Agnihotri. It depicts the genuine actions and tragedies of various real-life persons who experience this heinous crime. The misery of several real-life people who experienced the slaughter directly is shown in the film, which is based on historical incidents.
What happened to Girija Tickoo?
Sharda Pandit is the role played by Girija Tickoo in the film. She used to serve in a public school in Kashmir as a lab assistant. Girija was wedded to a Bandipora-based Kashmiri Pandit. When militants attacked the Pandits in the Kashmir, she and her family relocated to Jammu. Girija traveled to the Kashmir Valley in June 1990 after hearing back from someone who informed her that the circumstances in the Valley had calmed. She was summoned to pick up her salary and was assured of her safety. But Girija was abducted, molested, and then murdered in the most heinous method while coming home. Girija was viciously raped by five guys, one of whom was a coworker. They ripped her apart with a carpenter’s saw afterwards.
Sidhi Raina, Girija’s niece, actually came forward on Instagram after years of seclusion to reveal what occurred to Girija and her household during the difficult period. She wrote, “The Kashmir Files has released worldwide. This film shows the horrifying nights not only my family went through but what every Kashmiri Pandit family went through.
TW (Trigger Warning): Rape, Torture, Murder
My father’s sister, Girjia Tickoo, was a librarian at a University who had gone to collect her paycheck, on her way back the bus she was traveling from was stopped and what happened next still leaves me in shivers, tears, and nausea. My bua was then thrown into a taxi, with 5 men (one of them being her colleague), who tortured her, raped her, and then brutally murdered her by cutting her alive with a carpenter saw. Imagine being the brother who had to recognize his Babli, who wasn’t at fault in this gruesome battle of total hypocrisy. To this date, I’ve never heard anyone from my family speak about this incident. My father tells me every brother lived in such shame and anger that nothing had been done to receive justice for my Babli Bua. This is my plead to ALL of you to watch the Kashmir Files and take your friends and family with you.”
