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Sedatives overdose left victim incapacitated to resist rape, murder: Supplementary Charge Sheet

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The eight-year-old girl from Kathua, who was gang-raped and killed in January this year, was overdosed with a cocktail of sedatives through her captivity,”rendering her incapacitated” to resist sexual assault and murder, states the supplementary charge sheet filed by Jammu and Kashmir’s Crime Branch on Monday. The charge sheet filed in the Pathankot sessions court sums up the investigation of the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Crime Branch team and also gives details of the analyses of calls and bank accounts that led it to the eight accused of the brutal…

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Don’t play vote politics over Dogra pride: Devender Singh Rana to BJP

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National Conference provincial president Devender Singh Rana on Sunday said the Dogra pride was a prerogative of the people of the Jammu region and the BJP should not play politics over it. “When the party was in power in the state, its ministers never spoke about the Dogra pride and once they are not in power, they are crying hoarse in a vain bid of hoodwinking the public,” he said. Rana was addressing party workers of the erstwhile Kissan Mazdoor Party, which under the leadership of Vijay Pandey, had recently…

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PDP youth leader Vikram Singh Bhadwal and 50 PDP workers join BJP ahead of Mehbooba’s visit

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Ahead of Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti’s visit to Jammu, over 50 PDP workers, including prominent youth leader Vikram Singh, on Friday quit the party and joined the BJP in the presence former Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta and state president Ravinder Raina. After holding a series of meetings with Valley-based leaders, Mehbooba is going to start a similar exercise in Jammu from July 29 to keep the PDP’s flock together in the region. Two day before Mehbooba’s visit, the resignation of party workers speaks of the growing discontent…

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SC to take up BCI report on conduct of Jammu lawyers in Kathua case

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The Supreme Court will take up on 30 July the hearing of the report submitted by the fact-finding team of Bar Council of India (BCI) over the conduct of Jammu lawyers in obstructing the Crime Branch (CB) to file charge sheet in the brutal rape and murder case of an eight year nomadic girl of Rasana in Kathua court. SC will also hear the reply filed by Bar Association Jammu (BAJ) over the contempt petition notice issued by the apex court, as per sources. The Supreme Court had sent a…

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Respect sentiments to prevent lynching incidents: RSS leader Indresh Kumar

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After stoking controversy over his statement on mob lynching in the name of protecting cow, Indresh Kumar senior RSS leader on Wednesday stated that respecting sentiments would solve this (lynching) problem. He condemned the recent violent incidents in different parts of the country by cow vigilantes, while also stating that hurting sentiments of any section of society was also violence, which deserved similar condemnation. Indirectly demanding a ban on beef, the RSS leader said, “Some groups in the country are deliberately hurting the sentiments of people and they are equally…

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Another witness says couldn’t read sedative name in brutal Kathua Rape & Murder Case

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In a further setback to the prosecution in the brutal rape and murder case of the nomadic Kathua girl, one more witness has expressed his inability to recall the name of the sedative administered to the victim while she was being held captive at a temple. Naib-tehsildar Kamal Singh, a witness in the case, on Monday told the sessions court that “he couldn’t read the name of the medicine from the strip” recovered from Devsthan, sources told Kashmir Post. “I can’t say what kind of medicine it was,” Singh is…

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Do away with complex forms for Pandit voters: BJP

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The state unit of the BJP is making renewed efforts to end the mandatory filing of M-forms by the displaced Kashmiri Pandit voters ahead of every Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in J&K. Senior party leaders are likely to approach the Election Commission of India (ECI) to do away with the filing of forms, which has deprived thousands of Pandits of their voting rights due to the cumbersome process. Sources said the BJP was aggressively pursuing the issue with an eye on expanding workers’ base in the Valley while focusing…

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Lal Singh to float apolitical pro-Dogra outfit tomorrow

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Choudhary Lal Singh, former minister and BJP leader, is all set to float a pro-Jammu apolitical outfit on Sunday to intensify his fight to “restore the dignity and honour” of the Dogra community of the state. Since April 13, when he was forced by the party high command to resign from the council of ministers for supporting the demand for a CBI probe into the Kathua rape-murder case, Lal Singh has been addressing rallies across the Jammu region, raking up Dogra sentiments to emerge as a pro-Jammu leader before the…

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Over dismissal of accused cop in Kathua rape and murder High Court issues notice to state

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Asks Chief Secy, DGP to file response in two weeks The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday issued a notice to the state government seeking its reply within two weeks over a petition filed by a policeman, one of the eight accused in the Kathua rape and murder case, challenging his dismissal from service, a defence lawyer said. High Court Judge Justice M K Hanjura issued the notice to the Chief Secretary and the DGP after hearing the argument over the petition filed by Constable Tilak Raj. Besides Raj,…

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Ram Madhav’s upcoming Jammu visit fuels ‘Alliance’ rumours

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Amid rumours of the BJP trying to stitch an alliance with the rebel legislators of its erstwhile partner PDP, saffron party’s national general secretary Ram Madhav is reaching Jammu on a two-day tour on July 21. During his two-day stay, Madhav will interact with the party legislators besides holding organisational meetings in Jammu and Samba districts. Although the BJP leaders have termed Ram Madhav’s visit to Jammu as a routine trip for discussing organisational issues, his tour is significant amid reports of efforts being made by the party to stitch…

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