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| Supreme Court transfers Kathua rape and murder case to Punjab’s Pathankot court | | | Agencies
The Supreme Court on Monday transferred the Kathua gang rape and murder case to a court in Punjab’s Pathankot.
A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra was hearing petitions seeking shifting of the trial to Chandigarh and handing over the investigation to the CBI.
The victim, an eight-year-old girl from a minority nomadic community, had disappeared from near her home in a village near Kathua in the Jammu region on January 10. Her body was found in the same area a week later.
The Supreme Court had earlier given a stern warning and said it would transfer the case from the local court in the “slightest possibility” of lack of fair trial, saying the “real concern” was to hold proper prosecution.
The girl’s father had moved the top court earlier, apprehending threat to the family, a friend and their lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawat. A separate plea was also filed by two accused seeking that the trial in the case be held in Jammu and the probe handed over to the CBI. |
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