Kathua Rape Case

The parents of an eight-year-old nomad girl are anguished that while their appeal for enhancement of sentence against six people remains unheard, two convicts were released on bail in the case

Here is a look at the legal status of some rape cases which shook the country.

They have been sentenced to life imprisonment and fined Rs 100,000 each for murder along with 25 years in jail for gangrape

The bench, while rejecting both the pleas, said the accused could raise this issue before the lower court during the ongoing trial

The case was transferred by the Supreme Court from Jammu and Kashmir to Pathankot in Punjab for a fair trial following a plea by the victim's family

The juvenile had allegedly kidnapped the girl on January 10 on directions of his uncle Sanji Ram, who is the brain behind her abduction and killing

Since his resignation as a minister in April, BJP leader Lal Singh has organised multiple rallies, candlelight marches and protests to demand a CBI probe into the Kathua case

The report by the Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory (CFSL), detailing this conclusion, has been submitted to the crime branch of Jammu and Kashmir police

Kathua rape case: CJI-led bench orders trial to be held in-camera, as per provisions of Ranbir Penal Code, applicable in J&K

The group also pelted stones at the minister's vehicle, but the police swiftly cleared the crowd, they said

The eight-year-old's father had moved the apex court earlier, apprehending a threat to the family, a friend and their lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawat

All the Bakarwal families who live in the region from November/December to April/May have migrated, according to the policemen

The Union Cabinet on Saturday approved the ordinance to allow courts to award death penalty to those convicted of raping minors under 12 years

The victim's father also said: Whatever the government is doing is good and we are hopeful of getting justice for our child"

The eight-year-old from a minority nomadic community had disappeared from near her home in a village near Kathua in Jammu region on January 10

In the state assembly, the PDP has 28 legislators and BJP has 25

The BJP has been under pressure ever since Lal Singh and Chander Prakash Ganga - took part in a rally in support of those who raped and murdered a girl in Kathua

Before the start of the Kathua rape case trial today, lawyer of victim's family, Deepika Singh Rajawat, said that she feared for her life and that she might be raped or murdered

The chief judicial magistrate of Kathua will be committing one of the charge sheets, in which seven people have been named, to the sessions court for trial as mandated under the law

BCI in its Friday meeting had decided to dispatch the team to Kathua on April 20