Jammu: Peoples Democratic Party legislator from Rajouri Choudhary Qamar Hussain on Wednesday demanded that Crime Branch status report about the rape and murder of the minor Kathua girl should be tabled in the State Assembly.
The legislator raised the demand during zero hour in the House.
The girl was raped and murdered in Heeranagar area of Kathua district. The incident sparked massive protests forcing government to suspend a police officer and hand over the case to Crime Branch.
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“Now the Crime Branch is investigating the case. The status report should be tabled before this House so that we come to know about the progress in the case,” the PDP legislator said.
Recently, in a press conference, Chairman All Tribal Coordination Committee, Talib Hussain claimed that the real culprits in the rape and murder of minor Kathua girl were being shielded in a planned manner under the “guise of 15-year-old’s age”.
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Hussain, who was detained during protests against the murder earlier this week, said that the persons involved in this “heinous crime” are not being punished because of “political influence”.
Addressing a presser after his release in Jammu, he said that circumstantial evidence on the basis of doctors’ version and people who gave her ceremonial bath suggest that girl was “brutally raped”.
“Her two ribs and a leg were broken. She was given electric shocks. She was clubbed by stones,” said Hussain.
(With inputs from CNS)
