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  Kathua rape-murder case: Parents of victim anguished as two convicts walk out on bail

  India | December 26, 2021 16:56 IST

  The Supreme Court, had in 2018, directed the case to be shifted out of Jammu and Kashmir and ordered the sessions court in Pathankot to hear it on a daily basis.

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  No torture in Kathua probe, court order on FIR will be followed: DGP

  India | October 23, 2019 18:25 IST

  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 the court's directive of an FIR against the investigating police officials would be followed.

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  Court orders FIR against Kathua rape probe team members

  India | October 23, 2019 11:24 IST

  In June this year, District and Sessions Judge Tejwinder Singh sentenced to life imprisonment the three main accused, while sentencing five years in jail to three others for destruction of evidence in the case that shook the nation.

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  Kathua rape-murder case to be heard on priority: Punjab High Court

  India | July 18, 2019 18:38 IST

  Recognising the gravity of the crime, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday heard on priority petitions of the victim's family and the six convicts in the brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir.  

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  Kathua rape case: Pathankot court did not rely on prosecution eyewitnesses while acquitting Vishal

  India | June 16, 2019 16:24 IST

  The only acquittal in the Kathua rape-and-murder case came as the trial court set aside the statement of three prosecution witnesses who had claimed that Vishal Jangotra, the son of the main culprit Sanji Ram, was in the area at the time of the crime.

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  Kathua rape-murder case verdict: 3 get life imprisonment, 5-year jail term for others | Highlights

  India | June 10, 2019 23:16 IST

  After nearly a year-long trial, a Pathankot court on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment the three main accused in the gangrape-and-murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, while awarding five years in jail to three others for destruction of evidence.

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  Kathua rape and murder case: Life sentence for three accused, five-year jail term for three cops

  India | June 10, 2019 17:49 IST

  According to the 15-page charge sheet, the eight-year-old girl, who was kidnapped on January 10 last year, was allegedly raped in captivity in a small village temple in Kathua district after having been kept sedated for four days before she was bludgeoned to death.

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  Kathua rape and murder case: J-K crime branch initiates process of pressing perjury charges against witness

  India | November 08, 2018 17:24 IST

  The eight-year-old girl, belonging to a nomadic tribe, was allegedly kidnapped on January 10 and her body was found on January 17. I

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  Kathua rape case: SC seeks J&K govt's response on 'custodial torture' of witness

  India | August 21, 2018 21:19 IST

  The bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice DY Chandrachud asked the J&K government to file its response by August 27 as it directed the next hearing of the matter on August 29.

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  Kathua case: Supreme Court seeks J&K govt’s response on alleged custodial torture of witness

  India | August 08, 2018 12:23 IST

  Senior advocate Indira Jaising had submitted that Hussain had been brutally tortured in police custody and that judicial intervention was needed in the case.

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  Kathua rape-murder case: Accused was not in Meerut, handwriting tests claim

  India | August 05, 2018 16:02 IST

  According to the charge sheet filed by the crime branch, the answer sheets as well as attendance sheet of Vishal, son of alleged main accused Sanji Ram, were sent to handwriting experts, also known as Questioners of Examined Documents (QED).

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  Kathua rape-murder case: Supreme Court allows transfer of accused to Gurdaspur jail, Punjab

  India | July 09, 2018 18:29 IST

  A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra directed the Jammu and Kashmir Police to file a supplementary charge sheet in the case within eight weeks.

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  'Jihadis' behind Kathua rape, murder case: Defence lawyer

  India | July 09, 2018 9:00 IST

  Ankur Sharma, one of the lawyers defending the accused in the Kathua rape-and-murder case, asked Governor N N Vohra to immediately order a CBI enquiry into the case.  

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  Mehbooba Mufti in Aap ki Adalat: Horrific Kathua rape case still gives me goosebumps, politicisation unfortunate

  India | July 08, 2018 12:02 IST

  "Even more horrifying was the petty politics played using that little girl, stoking Hindu-Muslim tension. It was such an injustice to her very soul," Mufti said.

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  Kathua rape case: Accused who claimed to be juvenile is aged above 20, says medical report

  India | July 02, 2018 21:52 IST

  While seven of the accused are facing trial in the court here on the directions of the Supreme Court, the eighth accused in the case is facing trial in a juvenile court in Kathua district.

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  Kathua rape-murder case: Victim sank into coma due to overdose of sedatives, say forensic experts

  India | June 24, 2018 21:21 IST

  According to the medical opinion received recently by the crime branch, the doctors said the tablet given to the eight-year-old girl could have pushed her into a state of shock or coma (loss of consciousness).

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  Kathua rape-murder case: Pathankot court frames charges against seven accused

  India | June 07, 2018 17:43 IST

  Charges against seven of the eight accused of raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district were imposed by the Pathankot court

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  By revealing Kathua rape victim's identity, social media did great disservice to nation: Delhi HC

  India | May 18, 2018 21:36 IST

  Social media platforms Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were issued notices by the court after their Indian subsidiaries informed the bench that they were not the concerned entity to reply to the court's notice on the issue.

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  Kathua rape-murder case: Accused to file fresh petition in SC for CBI probe

  India | May 08, 2018 17:10 IST

  On Monday, the apex court had directed that the trail in this case be shifted from Jammu to Pathankot in Punjab. 

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  Kathua rape case: SC shifts trial out of J-K to Pathankot, says fair trial cannot co-exist with fear

  India | May 08, 2018 14:25 IST

  Directing day-to-day "in-camera" trial, the apex court asked the district and sessions judge at Pathankot to personally undertake the trial proceedings.