State spokesman of BJP, Brigadier Anil Gupta (Retired), said, “Omar and Mehbooba express happiness over the judgment. Every Indian wanted severest of punishment to the accused and justice to the victim. So the judgment is the victory of all Indians. True to their colours, both have begun playing politics with the judgment through barbs at those who supported the rape accused.”
The Supreme Court Friday dismissed the plea by two of the accused in the Kathua gang rape and murder case seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe.
The petitioner has contended that Talib Hussain -- an activist -- was being singled out as he had led the public campaign for justice for the Kathua victim.
Hussain's cousin had filed a habeas corpus writ petition alleging that Hussain has been kept in illegal detention and being subjected to custodial torture.
The Crime Branch alleged in its charge sheet that the withdrawals were made to bribe the police officers for destruction of evidence.
The district and sessions court here today framed charges against seven of the eight accused of raping and murdering an…
An application filed by a father 14 years ago to register the birth of his three children is the centrepiece of the Jammu and Kashmir Police's plea that the juvenile accused in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua be tried as an adult and not a minor.
Ravinder Raina, the Jammu and Kashmir Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President, said on Wednesday that the guilty in the Kathua…
The apex court has said the trial would be in accordance with provisions of Ranbir Penal Code, applicable in Jammu and Kashmir. The court added that the trial in the case must be fair to accused as well as the victim's family.
Angry protesters, who were demanding a CBI probe into Kathua rape and murder case, stoned BJP Minister Sham Lal Choudhary’s…
