Tag: Kathua rape case
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Trial in Kathua rape-murder case to begin today
The 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, 2018 -
Kathua rape case: Vivek Agnihotri says hold placard against sexual exploitation in Bollywood
Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri has now broken his silence over the protest of actors against the Kathua rape case. He says it is good that many actresses are holding placards and demanding justice in the Kathua rape case incident. However, the filmmaker wishes they also voice their concerns against sexual assaults in Bollywood. Bollywood actresses like...
April 15, 2018 -
Koena Mitra accuses Sonam Kapoor of giving ‘communal twist’ to Kathua rape case
Bollywood has joined in to express dismay at the Kathua rape-murder incident involving a minor girl. Among all the actors, Sonam Kapoor too tweeted about the crime. Now, actress Koena Mitra has slammed the actress, accusing her of giving it a communal twist. Sonam Kapoor condemned the incident and expressed disgust, saying: “Ashamed appalled and disgusted...
April 15, 2018 -
Kathua rape case: Mehbooba Mufti accepts resignations of BJP ministers
With these resignations, the number of ministers in the state government has come down to 22, including nine from the BJP.
April 15, 2018 -
Farooq Abdullah for death penalty to those raping minors, calls for J-K special session
Farooq 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 -
Kathua, Unnao rape cases: DCW chief’s hunger strike enters third day
The indefinite hunger strike of Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal entered the third day on Sunday. Seeking death penalty for rapists, Maliwal had launched the protest at Rajghat in wake of the rape incidents in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao and Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua districts. The DCW chief had begun her strike...
April 15, 2018 -
Surat: 9-year-old unidentifed girl raped, killed; body with 86 injuries found
In yet another case of horrific brutality to a minor girl, Gujarat police has found the body of a 9-year-old girl with more than 80 injuries, including some on her private parts. According to the media reports, the post-mortem report of the minor has revealed that she was raped and tortured before being strangled to...
April 15, 2018 -
Our daughters will get justice: PM Modi on Kathua, Unnao rape cases
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday broke his silence over the rape and murder of a minor in Jammu and Kashmir and the rape of a teenager in Uttar Pradesh, saying justice will be done to the victims and no culprit will be allowed to escape.
April 13, 2018 -
Committed to justice in rape cases: Home Minister Rajnath Singh
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said though he cannot intervene in state law and order affairs, he is taking all steps to ensure justice is done in the rape and murder case of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua. “I have talked to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti several...
April 13, 2018 -
Ensure Kathua girl’s family has access to justice, SC tells lawyers
The Supreme Court on Friday took suo motu notice of an incident of lawyers of Jammu and Kathua bar associations preventing a woman lawyer from appearing for the family of a rape victim. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud directed the members of both the associations to...
April 13, 2018 -
Rahul Gandhi leads midnight candlelight march over Kathua, Unnao rape cases
Congress President Rahul Gandhi led a midnight march to the India Gate in Delhi on Thursday to protest the Kathua and Unnao minor rape cases and said it’s time for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to walk the talk on ‘beti bachao’ (save the girl child). Amid slogans against the BJP and the Prime Minister during...
April 13, 2018 -
Maneka Gandhi to ask for death penalty in child rape cases
In the wake of public outrage over the gang-rape of an 8-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, Union Minister Maneka Gandhi on Friday declared that her ministry intends to amend the POCSO Act to make provision for the death penalty in child rape cases. “I have been deep, deeply disturbed by the rape...
April 13, 2018 -
Kathua rape-murder case: It’s a crime against humanity, says Rahul Gandhi
Even as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is being cornered over the Unnao rape case, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday referred to rape-murder case of a Kathua girl, saying “criminals of such horrific acts can’t go unpunished”. The Gandhi scion took to Twitter, referring to the rape and murder of an 8-year-old Kathua girl,...
April 12, 2018 -
Nation demands justice in Kathua, Unnao rape cases; BJP leaders silent
On 11 April, the nation woke up to the horrific details of the Kathua gang-rape case in which an 8-year-old was drugged, gangraped and brutally murdered in January 2018, as police filed chargesheet in the case. The ghastly manner in which the girl was allegedly treated by the accused is being seen as a...
April 12, 2018