J&K: Principal, teacher booked for thrashing student who wrote ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on school board

The boy has been hospitalised and the police have arrested the teacher. The teacher and the principal have been booked under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 342 (wrongful confinement), 504 (intentional insult), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 75 (cruelty to child) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act.

https://scroll.in/latest/1054954/j-k-principal-teacher-booked-for-thrashing-student-who-wrote-jai-shri-ram-on-school-board

#kashmir #kathua #HateCrime #ChildAbuse #JKPolice #IPC #law #india

A sessions court in Pathankot will on June 26 hear arguments on framing of charges against Shubam Sangra, prime accused in the 2018 rape and murder case of a minor nomad girl in #Kathua of #J&K.
https://trib.al/NS0M7sr #press

Why young girls must be taught about #BilkisBano and #Kathua

'My niece was just four years old when she turned to my sister-in-law in a packed movie theatre in Mumbai and asked about gang rape for the first time.'

http://toi.in/PCeXdb #press

Why young girls must be taught about #BilkisBano and #Kathua http://toi.in/jj4S0a

Sexual violence against women has become normalised and all women are victims #press

From 2018:

Kathua rape case: 2 BJP ministers attend rally in support of accused

What took most people by shock was the fact that the two BJP ministers even addressed the crowd at the rally and called the police action against the rape accused as 'jungle raj'.

#kashmir #kathua #rape #BJP

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/kathua-rape-case-2-bjp-ministers-attend-rally-in-support-of-accused-1181788-2018-03-04

Lodged in #Kathua’s Hiranagar sub-jail for the past over two years, more than 200 Rohingyas went on a protest and refused to take their food, a week ago, demanding they either be deported to #Myanmar or released

(Ravi Krishnan Khajuria reports)
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/over-200-rohingya-detainees-stage-hunger-strike-in-kathua-sub-jail-demand-deportation-to-myanmar-or-release-after-2-years-101685211985449.html #press

Jammu and Kashmir Congress Leader Quits, Cites Kathua Rape In Fiery Post

Jammu and Kashmir Congress spokesperson Deepika Pushkar Nath said she is leaving the party on ideological grounds as Lal Singh was responsible for sabotaging the 2018 Kathua rape case.

#kashmir #INC #BJP #KathuaRape #RSS #LalSingh #DeepikaPushkarNath #asifa #BharatJodoYatra #HumanRights #kathua #jammu #india

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/jammu-and-kashmir-congress-spokesperson-deepika-pushkar-nath-resigns-over-ex-minister-lal-singh-joining-bharat-jodo-yatra-3701554