But, indeed! A majority including Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal welcomed the court verdict in Kathua gangrape and murder of a minor girl and many others from all walks of politics etc. too, prayed for no mercy against those monsters who commit heinous crimes.
Congress party also welcomes Pathankot court’s judgment and in a tweet, Congress welcomed the Pathankot court’s judgment in the Kathua rape and murder case. It said that the party hoped that the victim’s family can find justice in the verdict.
Human-Brainpowers in Bollywood; also hailed the decision of court and demanded more strict and exemplary punishments further for cases like Kathua and Aligarh.
The Kathua rape case refers to the abduction, rape, and murder of an 8-year-old girl, Asifa Bano, in Rasana village near Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir in January 2018. In kathua rape case court announced the result, 3 convicts Sentenced to life imprisonment and 3 convicts five years sentence.
Asaduddin Owaisi however, took on the Bharatiya Janata Party, criticising its state ministers who had attended a rally organised in support of the accused in March 2018. Inappropriately, the then, two BJP ministers in the Jammu and Kashmir government, Chandra Parkash Ganga and Lal Singh, who defended the men arrested for raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua, also submitted their resignations to state BJP that time.
Nonetheless, uproars still developing for capital punishment for accused in any such case ‘be it Kathua or Aligarh the beasts deserve death penalty- nothing less’. JNU student activist Shehla Rashid hoped for a “tougher sentencing and conviction of all accused in a higher court”.
Shehla tweeted that the Jammu and Kashmir government should approach higher court in the matter.
While, planning to challenge verdict, says prosecution lawyer after the quantum of sentence was pronounced, Farooqi Khan, lawyer of victim’s father told pressmen that “We are little disappointed. We had demanded for capital punishment… Maybe, we’re planning for that (challenging the verdict).”
Not to forget, the honest role of team of crime branch Jammu under the active supervisions of then, SSP RK Jhalla, those kept nerves while discharging their service obligations and seriously exerted to collect candid evidences in this controversial case had led to a major outrage across the country last year. As a number of groups were seen supporting the accused, some of whom were police officers and politicians in powers.
The charge sheet filed by the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Crime Branch on April 9 last year said the girl had been held captive in a “devasthan”, or temple, in the village, drugged, raped repeatedly, strangled to death and then bludgeoned. She was abducted on January 10 and killed four days later. Her body was found near Kathua on January 17.
Above all, Lawyers in Kathua had prevented crime branch officials from filing the chargesheet.
Later, the victim’s family petitioned the Supreme Court for the case to be transferred outside Jammu and Kashmir, to which the court agreed.
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