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"Most Brutal" Accused In 8-Year-Old Girl's Rape In Jammu's Kathua To Be Tried As Adult
Shubam Sangra, the main accused, had tried to evade an adult trial by claiming to be 15. A medical test had found him to be no younger than 19.
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Conviction In Kathua Rape Case Will Act As Deterrent, Says Mayawati
BSP chief Mayawati today said the conviction in the Kathua gang rape-murder case will serve as a deterrent and prevent people from committing such heinous crimes. A court on Monday sentenced three men, including a temple caretaker, to life imprisonment for the gang-rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir shortly after c...
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Police May Challenge Lone Acquittal In Kathua Rape, Murder Case
The Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday said it may challenge the acquittal of the seventh accused in the Kathua gang rape and murder case, in which three persons were sentenced to jail for life and three others for five years each.
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Top Court Dismisses Plea Alleging Torture Of Key Kathua Rape Case Witness
The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea claiming that a key witness in the sensational Kathua gang rape-and-murder case was allegedly tortured in custody by the Jammu and Kashmir Police in connection with a separate rape case.
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Top Court Dismisses Plea For Fresh Probe In Kathua Rape And Murder Case
The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea by an accused in the Kathua gang rape and murder case seeking fresh investigation in the matter on grounds that the probe was allegedly motivated.
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Top Court To Hear Plea Alleging Torture Of Kathua Case Witness Tomorrow
The Supreme Court will hear a plea tomorrow alleging that Talib Hussain, a key witness in the Kathua gang rape and murder case, is being tortured by the Jammu and Kashmir police in a fake rape case.
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Before She Was Killed, Sedatives Put Kathua Girl Into Coma: Doctors
Overdose of sedatives, forcibly given to an eight-year-old girl while she was being kept in captivity in Kathua in January this year, could have pushed her into a coma before she was killed, forensic medical experts have said
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Death Penalty for Child Rapists Updates: President Kovind Signs Ordinance To Provide Strict Punishment
Today, President Ram Nath Kovind has signed the executive order to pave way for providing stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years. The Union Cabinet on Saturday at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the ordinance and was waiting for the President's ...
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Quicker Trials, Probe In Centre's Death For Child Rapists Ordinance: 10 Facts
The centre on Saturday responded to the barrage of attacks over the government's inability to curb sexual crimes against girls with an executive order to introduce death penalty for child rapists, longer jail term for all rapists and set an ambitious four-month deadline to complete investigation and trial in all rape cases. The changes were cleared...
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Bar Council To Send 5-Member Panel To Kathua To Report On Rape Case
A five-member committee of the Bar Council of India (BCI) will visit Kathua city in Jammu and Kashmir and submit a factual report on the case of the rape of a minor girl after seeking time from the Supreme Court on April 19, BCI President Manan Mishra said on Sunday.
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Mehbooba Mufti Seeks Fast Track Court For Kathua Rape Case, Sacks Accused Policemen
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who also holds the Home portfolio, on Saturday terminated the services of four policemen accused in the rape and murder of a minor in Kathua district.
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Lawyers Cannot Obstruct Access To Justice: Supreme Court On Kathua Case
Lawyers cannot obstruct the process of law and it is violation of access to justice, the Supreme Court has said. The court was hearing a petition filed by a group of lawyers seeking action against lawyers who tried to obstruct the filing of a chargesheet in rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua and allegedly threatened ...
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"Most Brutal" Accused In 8-Year-Old Girl's Rape In Jammu's Kathua To Be Tried As Adult
Shubam Sangra, the main accused, had tried to evade an adult trial by claiming to be 15. A medical test had found him to be no younger than 19.
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Conviction In Kathua Rape Case Will Act As Deterrent, Says Mayawati
BSP chief Mayawati today said the conviction in the Kathua gang rape-murder case will serve as a deterrent and prevent people from committing such heinous crimes. A court on Monday sentenced three men, including a temple caretaker, to life imprisonment for the gang-rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir shortly after c...
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Police May Challenge Lone Acquittal In Kathua Rape, Murder Case
The Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday said it may challenge the acquittal of the seventh accused in the Kathua gang rape and murder case, in which three persons were sentenced to jail for life and three others for five years each.
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Top Court Dismisses Plea Alleging Torture Of Key Kathua Rape Case Witness
The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea claiming that a key witness in the sensational Kathua gang rape-and-murder case was allegedly tortured in custody by the Jammu and Kashmir Police in connection with a separate rape case.
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Top Court Dismisses Plea For Fresh Probe In Kathua Rape And Murder Case
The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea by an accused in the Kathua gang rape and murder case seeking fresh investigation in the matter on grounds that the probe was allegedly motivated.
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Top Court To Hear Plea Alleging Torture Of Kathua Case Witness Tomorrow
The Supreme Court will hear a plea tomorrow alleging that Talib Hussain, a key witness in the Kathua gang rape and murder case, is being tortured by the Jammu and Kashmir police in a fake rape case.
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Before She Was Killed, Sedatives Put Kathua Girl Into Coma: Doctors
Overdose of sedatives, forcibly given to an eight-year-old girl while she was being kept in captivity in Kathua in January this year, could have pushed her into a coma before she was killed, forensic medical experts have said
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Death Penalty for Child Rapists Updates: President Kovind Signs Ordinance To Provide Strict Punishment
Today, President Ram Nath Kovind has signed the executive order to pave way for providing stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years. The Union Cabinet on Saturday at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the ordinance and was waiting for the President's ...
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Quicker Trials, Probe In Centre's Death For Child Rapists Ordinance: 10 Facts
The centre on Saturday responded to the barrage of attacks over the government's inability to curb sexual crimes against girls with an executive order to introduce death penalty for child rapists, longer jail term for all rapists and set an ambitious four-month deadline to complete investigation and trial in all rape cases. The changes were cleared...
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Bar Council To Send 5-Member Panel To Kathua To Report On Rape Case
A five-member committee of the Bar Council of India (BCI) will visit Kathua city in Jammu and Kashmir and submit a factual report on the case of the rape of a minor girl after seeking time from the Supreme Court on April 19, BCI President Manan Mishra said on Sunday.
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Mehbooba Mufti Seeks Fast Track Court For Kathua Rape Case, Sacks Accused Policemen
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who also holds the Home portfolio, on Saturday terminated the services of four policemen accused in the rape and murder of a minor in Kathua district.
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Lawyers Cannot Obstruct Access To Justice: Supreme Court On Kathua Case
Lawyers cannot obstruct the process of law and it is violation of access to justice, the Supreme Court has said. The court was hearing a petition filed by a group of lawyers seeking action against lawyers who tried to obstruct the filing of a chargesheet in rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua and allegedly threatened ...
