A court sentenced three men including a temple caretaker to life imprisonment till last breath for the gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Kathua shortly after convicting them along with three others for the ghastly crime that shook the nation 17 months ago. The other three accused–Sub Inspector Anand Dutta, Head … Read more
In a stern warning, the Supreme Court today said it would transfer the Kathua gangrape and murder case from the local court in Jammu and Kashmir in the “slightest possibility” of lack of fair trial, saying the “real concern” was to hold proper prosecution. The observations by a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra … Read more
Vishal, who is only 22, and runs a canteen in a school is being passed off as one of the 8 accused in Kathua case. He is in a shock and is receiving hate messages from all over the country. Media and the “Samaritans” did numerous blunders in reporting the Kathua murder (alleged rape and … Read more
After lawyer Deepika Singh Rajwat — who is fighting the case of an eight-year-old girl from Kathua who was raped and murdered — accused the Jammu High Court Bar Association president of threatening her, the Jammu Bar on Sunday sent a team of women lawyers to defend its president Bopinder Singh Salathia. The Bar had come under criticism … Read more