Srinagar: A day after two BJP ministers from Jammu and Kashmir, who had defended the men arrested for allegedly conspiring, raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl in Kathua, handed over their resignations, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti held a meeting with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders in Srinagar. Senior BJP leaders, including Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh and Jammu and Kashmir BJP President Sat Sharma, met in Jammu to discuss the resignations and the future course of action. Ram Madhav, BJP general secretary and one of the key forces behind the PDP and BJP alliance, also joined them at the party headquarters.
Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has written to the chief justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, requesting setting up of a special fast-track court to try the brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua.
It would complete the trial in 90 days and would be the first such court in the state, official sources said.
The state government has also decided to terminate from service the cops accused in the case, they added.
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres hoped that the perpetrators
of the Kathua gangrape would be punished.
"My only wish is the culprits should be hanged for the heinous crime so that no other family has to go through it.," said the eight-year-old's biological mother.
At a time when India is horrified with rape and murders, a private bank in Kerala was forced to sack its employee after he made derogatory comments about the 8-year-old girl raped and killed in Jammu's Kathua.
Kotak Mahindra Bank has sacked its Kochi branch Assistant Manager Vishnu Nandakumar, for hate comments on social media.