Srinagar, JK (Reuters): Eight men accused of involvement in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state appeared in court on Monday for the first hearing in a case that sparked nationwide outrage and criticism of the ruling party. The girl, from a nomadic community that roams the […]
Archives for April 16, 2018
‘I can be raped, killed, Kathua victim’s counsel tells media
Jammu, April 16: The legal counsel for the rape and murder of eight-year-old Kathua girl, Aasifa, has said that she can be raped or killed for the stand she has taken for the victim. Victim’s counsel, Deepika S Rajawat, told media in Jammu: “I don’t know till when I will be alive. I can be […]
Kathua victim’s mother: ‘The girl who loved horses, meadows… now in a lonely grave’
Sitting under a bridge, just short of Manwal near Udhampur, on way to Kargil, the Bakerwal woman says looking at any of her daughter’s possessions would leave a lump in her throat. Naveed Iqbal | Kishanpur, (Udhampur) April 15: Just days before she went missing from near her home in January, the eight-year-old girl gangraped […]
