A Special Court in Pathankot of Punjab on earlier on Monday convicted six out of the seven in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua last year.
June 10, 2019The eight-year-old nomadic girl, who was kidnapped on January 10 last year, was raped in captivity in a small village temple after having been kept sedated for four days before she was bludgeoned to death.
June 10, 2019Angry protesters, who were demanding a CBI probe into Kathua rape and murder case, stoned BJP Minister Sham Lal Choudhary’s cavalcade on Saturday on the Jammu-Pathankot highway. The incident happened when the protesters tried to block the highway and when the state minister’s cavalcade did not stop, the angry protesters pelted stones at the cavalcade....
May 5, 2018The brutal rape and murder case of an eight-year-old in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir, led to a nationwide outrage and condemnation of the heinous crimes. The details regarding how the crime was planned and executed continue to shock people. In the latest revelation, it was reported that Sanji Ram, one of the main accused in...
April 28, 2018The Jammu High Court Bar Association on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it did not support lawyers’ protest in connection with the Kathua gang-rape and murder case. The Bar Council of India told the court that they have constituted a team, headed by a former high court judge, which will visit Kathua to...
April 19, 2018A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud asked the state police to provide adequate security at the observation home where a juvenile accused has been kept.
April 16, 2018The juvenile arrested in the Kathua rape and murder case has moved a bail application before the judicial magistrate, which will be heard later on Monday.
April 16, 2018The Supreme Court on Monday said that it will hear later in the day a plea by the father of Kathua rape and murder case seeking transfer of trial to Chandigarh from Jammu. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra directed the hearing of the matter to 2 p.m. Dipika Singh Rajawat, lawyer of...
April 16, 2018The Jammu and Kashmir government has appointed two special public prosecutors, both Sikhs, for the trial in the sensitive case, a move being seen as made to ensure “neutrality” in view of Hindu-Muslim polarisation over the case.
April 16, 2018Farooq Abdullah, National Conference (NC) president, on Sunday demanded a special session of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly to bring in a Bill to award capital punishment to those who are convicted of raping minors. His comments have come in the backdrop of a nationwide outrage over the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl...
April 15, 2018