Rajni Bala (1987-2022) was an Indian government school teacher. She was shot in a civilian militant attack in Jammu and Kashmir.
Wiki/Biography
Rajni Bala was born in 1987. She was from the Samba district in Jammu and Kashmir and completed her B.Ed in Jammu and Kashmir.
Physical Appearance
Hair Colour: Dark brown
Eye Colour: Dark brown
Family & Ethnicity
Rajni Bala was from a Kashmiri pandit family.
Husband & Children
Rajni was the wife of Raj Kumar who was also a government school teacher. The couple has a daughter named Sana who is thirteen years old.
Career
After completing her education, Rajni cleared RPSC exams and was appointed as a government school teacher in J&K. She and her husband were posted in two different schools in Kulgam district in Jammu and Kashmir in 2009. Since 2017, she was working at the Government High School in Gopal Pora. However, the area of her posting was unsafe and she along with her husband was requesting authorities to transfer them to a safer region.
Death
On 31 May 2022, Rajni went to school with her husband and daughter who left after dropping her outside the school. Rajni walked towards the main entrance of the school where she was shot in the head by a Militant.
Rajni Bala’s daughter and relatives in Samba after her death
This was the seventh militant attack on Hindu civilians in Jammu and Kashmir. It was Rajni’s last day at the school as their transfer request was accepted on the night preceding the attack. Reporters talked to her husband who was devastated. He said,
Had the administration transferred her to a safer place earlier, she might have been alive by now. I curse my destiny. Just a day after her transfer, she was killed by terrorists.’
Rajni Bala’s dead body in her hometown
Facts/Trivia
- After this attack, protests were made by various Hindu civilians in Jammu and Kashmir who demanded to be shifted to a safer location.