The Punjab and Haryana High Court will on July 18 hear a petition seeking an enhancement of the sentence awarded to the convicts of rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu's Kathua in 2018. Justice Rajiv Sharma said this while during the preliminary hearing of the case on Wednesday. The girl from the nomadic Bakerwal community was kidnapped from Kathua’s Rasana area on January 10 in 2018 and found dead on January 17. The victim’s father had approached the High Court seeking an enhancement of the sentence awarded to six convicts. The victim’s father has pleaded that it's a rarest of the rare cases and as per the standards set by the Supreme Court.

Source: The Hindu July 17, 2019 09:07 UTC