Udhampur, Indian-administered Kashmir: Police investigation details gruesome rape and killing of eight-year-old Asifa Bano, as outrage in India soars. Udhampur, Indian-administered Kashmir - The time was ripe to kill the girl, Sanji Ram told his juvenile nephew on a cold January evening, according to a police report. The ritual had been performed and Asifa, an eight-year-old Muslim nomad girl, was taken to a culvert in front of a temple where she had been kept in captivity, and sedated, for four days in Rasana village of Kathua district in Indian-administered Kashmir. But, before she was strangulated and her head hit twice with a stone "to make sure" she was dead, Deepak Khajuria, a special police officer, made a demand. He wanted to rape the girl before she was killed. "As such", the police investigation noted, "once again the little girl was gang-raped" by the accused police officer and then by the juvenile. For the next three mo...