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  • Bharat Jodo Yatra resumes amid tight security in J-K’s Kathua

    Bharat Jodo Yatra resumes amid tight security in J-K’s Kathua

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    Kathua/Jammu: The Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi resumed Sunday from Hiranagar in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district amid heightened security in the wake of twin blasts in Jammu.

    After a day-long break, the foot march started as per schedule around 7 am from Hiranagar near the International Border along the Jammu-Pathankot highway which was sealed by police and other security forces.

    Accompanied by J-K Pradesh Congress chief Vikar Rasool Wani, working president Raman Bhalla and hundreds of volunteers carrying the tricolour, Gandhi entered Samba district’s Tapyal-Gagwal after crossing Londi check point at around 8 am and was greeted by enthusiastic workers and supporters waiting on both sides of the road.

    After covering about 25-km distance, the march will have a night halt at Chak Nanak before restarting from Samba’s Vijaypur for Jammu, where it will reach on Monday.

    Officials said adequate security arrangements are in place for Gandhi with police, CRPF and other security agencies keeping a tight vigil to ensure a peaceful march.

    Security has been further beefed up across Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of twin bomb blasts in Narwal area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Saturday, that left nine people injured.

    Police suspect that IEDs were used to carry out the twin explosions in an SUV parked in a repair shop and in a vehicle at a nearby junkyard at Transport Nagar area of Narwal.

    The terror attack comes at a time when security agencies in the region are on high alert in the wake of the Yatra of the Congress and the upcoming Republic Day celebrations.

    The march started from Kanyakumari on September 7 and entered Jammu and Kashmir from Punjab on Thursday.

    The yatra is scheduled to end in Srinagar on January 30 with hoisting of national flag at Congress headquarters by Gandhi.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Man kills his brother and his wife with an axe over a “land dispute” in J-K’s Kathua

    Man kills his brother and his wife with an axe over a “land dispute” in J-K’s Kathua

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    A man on Tuesday brutally murdered down his younger brother and his wife due to a “land dispute” in the village of Marheen in the Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir.

    Ramesh Kotwal, senior superintendent of police in Kathua, said that accused Raj Kumar, a resident of Chak Wazir Labzoo, killed his younger brother Naresh Kumar, 32, and his wife Asha, 24, at their home in the tehsil Marheen.

    “Land disputed is stated to the cause of brutal crime,” said the top cop.

    He added, “When the police party got there, they found the accused had done two murders.”

    “The accused has been detained and the weapon of offence (sharp weapons) has also been seized,” the SSP said, “and the FSL team collected the samples and all legal requirements are fulfilled.”

    A board of doctors has taken possession of the bodies and transported them to the Government Medical College in Kathua for postmortem examination.

    At Rajbagh Police Station, a case has been filed under the relevant laws, and an investigation has started.

    (With inputs from Excelsior)


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  • Kathua Rape Accused To Be Tried As ‘Adult’, Not ‘Juvenile’: Supreme Court

    Kathua Rape Accused To Be Tried As ‘Adult’, Not ‘Juvenile’: Supreme Court

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    The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that one of the accused in the gang-rape and murder trial of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Kathua was not a juvenile and can now be prosecuted again as an adult.

    The top court further stated that in the absence of statutory proof on the same problem, medical opinions on an accused person’s age cannot be “swept aside”, news agency PTI reported.

    “Medical opinion regarding age in absence of any other conclusive evidence should be considered to determine the age range of the accused…Whether medical evidence can be relied upon or not depends on the value of evidence,” a bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and JB Pardiwala said.

    It reversed the rulings of the high court and the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Kathua, which had determined that the accused was a minor and needed to be tried separately.

    “We set aside the judgments of the CJM Kathua and the high court and hold that the accused was not a juvenile at the time of commission of offence,” Justice Pardiwala said while pronouncing the verdict.

    The girl was raped in a Kathua village in 2019. Three men were given life sentences in this case by a special court in June 2019, and three police officers received five-year sentences for evidence destruction. However, the Juvenile Justice Board was given the case against one of the accused.

    (With inputs from agencies)


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