Girija Tickoo was an Indian librarian who was killed during the escape of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s.
Wiki/Biography
Girija Tickoo was born on Saturday, February 15, 1969 in Aligam, Bandipora, Jammu and Kashmir (age 21 at the time of death). Her zodiac sign is Aquarius.
appearance
Hair color: black
Eye color: brown
family
She was born into a Kashmiri Pandit family.
Parents and siblings
Her brother’s name is Satish Raina.
Girija Tickoo and her family
Girija Tickoo’s brother and his family
husband and children
Her husband is Gidali Lal Tiku from Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir. According to media sources, she had two children (a boy and a girl) at the time of her death.
brutal rape and murder
According to some media sources, Girija worked as a laboratory assistant at the Government Girls High School in Tregam, Jammu and Kashmir, in the 1980s.
Excerpt from a book about the career of Girija Tickoo
According to her niece’s Instagram post, she is a librarian at a university in Jammu and Kashmir. Later, when militants threatened Kashmiri Pandits to leave Kashmir, Girija and her family moved to Jammu. In June 1990, she received a call from a colleague saying that the situation in Kashmir had improved and that she could receive her salary from her school. She then went to school to collect her salary and upon returning from school she was abducted by five men (jihadi militants) including a colleague. She was then brutally gang-raped by the men in a taxi before her body was cut in half with a carpenter’s saw. According to media reports, her body was sawed into pieces while she was still alive. She was killed on June 25, 1990, and her body was found on the side of the road. Her niece shared the incident on Instagram. she wrote,
My father’s sister, Girjia Tickoo, was a librarian at a university. She went to collect her salary and on the way back her bus was stopped. What happened next still haunts me. Shaking, tearful and nauseated. My bua was then thrown into a taxi with 5 men (one of whom was her co-worker) who tortured, raped and then brutally murdered her by hacking her alive with a carpenter’s saw she. Imagine being the brother of Babli who had to admit that he was not at fault in this horrific battle of utter hypocrisy. So far I haven’t heard my family talk about it. “
She added,
My father told me that every brother lived in such shame and anger that they did nothing to get justice for my Babli Bua. I am blessed to be a part of @KOAYouth @KOAorg where I connect with the youth of the Kashmiri Pandit community and where we can share our past. I implore you all to watch The Kashmir Files and bring your friends and family along to watch it. “
A few years later, Girija Tickoo’s family moved to the United States. It later emerged that many other women had been tortured by the militants in the same way.
Facts/Trivia
- Her family and friends used to call her Babli.
- In 2022, the Hindi film “Kashmir Files” was released, in which Girija’s story was played by Indian actor Bhasha Sumbli in a character named “Sharda Pandit”.
Stills of Basha Sambli in the movie “Kashmir Files”
Categories: Biography
Source: HIS Education