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Kathua rape and murder case: Mehbooba sacks accused cops, seeks fast track court

Srinagar: Mehbooba Mufti, chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday terminated the services of the four cops accused of rape and murder of the minor Kathua girl.

Mehbooba also wrote to the Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court seeking a fast track court in the case.

The development comes a day after the resignation of two Bharatiya Janata Party ministers in the coalition government — Chaudhry Lal Singh and Chander Prakash Ganga — who had attended rallies in support of the accused in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua.

Mehbooba Mufti is in Srinagar to meet party legislators and senior ministers to discuss the future course of action on the case.

Earlier, the BJP had said that both the ministers were ‘misled and misguided by a few people.’

The main opposition party National Conference had said that they will consider a civil disobedience movement against the government if they fail to take action against the ‘erring ministers’.

Former chief minister Omar Abdullah also told CM Mehbooba Mufti to sack the two ministers the way she sacked former Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu.

Ganga, the Industries Minister, earlier had said that he was satisfied with the investigation of the Crime Branch and the culprits involved in the rape and murder case of the minor girl should be hanged.

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