Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president Ghulam Ahmad Mir on Tuesday lashed out at lawyers who tried to prevent the Crime Branch officials from presenting the charge sheet in the case of rape-and- murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua.
Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president Ghulam Ahmad Mir on Tuesday lashed out at lawyers who tried to prevent the Crime Branch officials from presenting the charge sheet in the case of rape-and- murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua.
"I am surprised over this move. It is politically motivated, obnoxious and conspiracy to achieve something out of this heinous crime for those hindering the process of justice," Mir said in a statement in Srinagar. The lawyers prevented the Crime Branch officials from entering the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Kathua on Monday as the sleuths were going to file the charge sheet in the rape-and-murder case.
"The act of hindering the justice process amounts to endorsement of heinous crimes. Shame on them," Mir said.
The body of the eight-year-old nomad tribal girl was found near the jungles at Rasana village of Hiranagar in Kathua district on January 17, a week after she went missing near her home in Kota village.
Tensions rose when lawyers allegedly tried to prevent the Crime Branch from filing the chargesheet in the rape and murder case of eight year old tribal nomad girl at the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Kathua.
Lawyers and other people staged a strong protest outside the court premises when the Crime Branch officials arrived to file the charge-sheet at Kathua.
Sensing trouble, police reinforcements were immediately called in to provide security cover to the officials so that they could file the chargesheet.
"Lawyers in Kathua Jammu tried to stop the J&K Police Crime Branch from filing a chargesheet in the case of the rape and murder of an 8 yr old girl but some “news” channels are happier reporting outside a chola bhatura shop", tweeted Omar Abdullah, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister.
BAR Association Kathua, however, said the Crime Branch could not succeed in filing the challan due to their agitation. "The agitation of BAR shall continue. The BAR has unanimously decided to keep work under suspension till April 12", said Kirty Bhushan Mahajan, president of Kathua BAR Association.
The high drama was witnessed against the backdrop of the Jammu bandh call on April 11 by the civil society groups and lawyers to pressure the J&K government to order CBI probe into the rape and murder case of the eight year old girl.
High Court BAR Association of Jammu (BAJ) and civil society groups have called for Jammu bandh on April 11 demanding CBI probe in the rape and murder case alleging that the Crime branch is conducting investigation in biased manner and trying to extract the statements from the accused by force.
(With agency inputs)
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