Three men convicted for gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua were on Monday sentenced to life in jail. A Pathankot court, which had convicted six people a few hours earlier, sentenced three others to five years for destroying evidence to shield the rapists. Parvesh Kumar is the friend of the eighth accused named by Jammu and Kashmir’s Crime Branch for kidnapping the girl and her gang-rape. Two BJP ministers in the erstwhile Mehbooba Mufti government - Chandra Prakash Ganga and Lal Singh – also had to quit for their open support to the accused. The trial was shifted out of Jammu and Kashmir to a special court in Punjab’s Pathankot on the orders of the Supreme Court.

Source: Hindustan Times June 10, 2019 11:15 UTC