A retired government official is among the six people convicted on Monday in connection with the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua last year that outraged the country. Four days later, she was strangled and then bludgeoned with a stone to make sure she was dead. The other three include two policemen tasked to carry out the initial murder investigation but went about trying to destroy evidence. Also read | Kathua minor’s rape & murder case: The hall of shameSanji Ram, a retired revenue department official, was the key plotter. J&K BJP leader and former deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta distanced the BJP from the row around the case.

Source: Hindustan Times June 10, 2019 06:26 UTC