Rape Cases In Jammu And Kashmir

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has granted pre-arrest bail to a Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force who is facing rape charges.

A rape accused, who was at large for five months, was arrested in the Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said. The accused was identified as Sandeep Singh, a resident of Hoochak village of Pogal, they said.

The trial of the main accused in the 2018 rape-and-murder of an 8-year-old in Kathua will resume at the District Sessions Court in Punjab's Pathankot today. In November last year, the Supreme Court had ordered that Shubam Sangra be tried as an adult.

A man was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a girl from Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, the police said today.

The wheels of justice have "completely collapsed", former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti said today after one of the convicts in the 2018 Kathua rape case was granted bail by a court in Punjab.

A man wanted in a three-year-old kidnapping and rape case was arrested on Sunday in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district, police said.

Police on Friday arrested a fugitive wanted in a 33-year-old rape case in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar district, officials said.

A three-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour while she was playing outside her house in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, a police officer said on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the proceedings before the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) against a ''minor'' allegedly involved in the gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua in 2018.

Defending the team that probed the Kathua rape and murder case last year, Jammu and Kashmir police chief Dilbag Singh on Wednesday said no witnesses were tortured and but the court's order to file a First Information Report against the investigating police officials would be followed.

The trial against a juvenile accused in the horrific rape-and-murder case of an eight-year-old nomadic girl at Kathua last year will begin on Monday as the Jammu and Kashmir High Court refused to entertain a plea for an early hearing of a petition challenging his status as a minor, officials said

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday issued notices to the Jammu and Kashmir government and six men convicted in the case of rape and murder of an eight-year-old nomad girl in Kathua on a plea by her father seeking enhanced punishment for them.

A juvenile justice board has framed charges against a minor in the case of gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Kathua and has fixed Monday for examining prosecution witnesses and commencing trial.

The father of an eight-year-old girl, who was raped and murdered in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district last year, moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday seeking enhancement of sentence imposed on six convicts and also challenging the acquittal of one accused.

The special court which convicted six people in the rape and murder of an 8-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, has termed the crime "devilish and monstrous" and said that it was committed in the most "shameful, inhumane and barbaric manner" for which "poetic justice" needs to be done.

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has granted pre-arrest bail to a Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force who is facing rape charges.

A rape accused, who was at large for five months, was arrested in the Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said. The accused was identified as Sandeep Singh, a resident of Hoochak village of Pogal, they said.

The trial of the main accused in the 2018 rape-and-murder of an 8-year-old in Kathua will resume at the District Sessions Court in Punjab's Pathankot today. In November last year, the Supreme Court had ordered that Shubam Sangra be tried as an adult.

A man was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a girl from Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, the police said today.

The wheels of justice have "completely collapsed", former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti said today after one of the convicts in the 2018 Kathua rape case was granted bail by a court in Punjab.

A man wanted in a three-year-old kidnapping and rape case was arrested on Sunday in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district, police said.

Police on Friday arrested a fugitive wanted in a 33-year-old rape case in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar district, officials said.

A three-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour while she was playing outside her house in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, a police officer said on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the proceedings before the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) against a ''minor'' allegedly involved in the gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua in 2018.

Defending the team that probed the Kathua rape and murder case last year, Jammu and Kashmir police chief Dilbag Singh on Wednesday said no witnesses were tortured and but the court's order to file a First Information Report against the investigating police officials would be followed.

The trial against a juvenile accused in the horrific rape-and-murder case of an eight-year-old nomadic girl at Kathua last year will begin on Monday as the Jammu and Kashmir High Court refused to entertain a plea for an early hearing of a petition challenging his status as a minor, officials said

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday issued notices to the Jammu and Kashmir government and six men convicted in the case of rape and murder of an eight-year-old nomad girl in Kathua on a plea by her father seeking enhanced punishment for them.

A juvenile justice board has framed charges against a minor in the case of gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Kathua and has fixed Monday for examining prosecution witnesses and commencing trial.

The father of an eight-year-old girl, who was raped and murdered in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district last year, moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday seeking enhancement of sentence imposed on six convicts and also challenging the acquittal of one accused.

The special court which convicted six people in the rape and murder of an 8-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, has termed the crime "devilish and monstrous" and said that it was committed in the most "shameful, inhumane and barbaric manner" for which "poetic justice" needs to be done.