Arrests to conviction: Key dates in trial of Kathua rape and murder case

A special Pathankot court on Monday convicted six persons in the brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl from a village near Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir. The court sentenced three convicts life imprisonment and five-year jail terms for the other three.

The in-camera trial in the case that shook the nation ended on June 3, when district and sessions judge Tejwinder Singh had announced that the verdict was to be delivered today.

Elaborate security arrangements had been made in and around the court and in Kathua in view of the pronouncement of the judgement. 

According to the 15-page