Kathua rape case: Lawyers booked for blocking chargesheet, Omar Abdullah lauds move

Jammu: An FIR was registered against lawyers who tried to block the presentation of a chargesheet in a court in Jammu and Kashmir in the rape and murder of a minor girl, police said on Tuesday. [caption id=“attachment_4419005” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File image of Jammu and Kashmir police. AFP[/caption] “The FIR has been lodged into the incident wherein some lawyers tried to obstruct the presenting of the chargesheet by the Crime Branch in the court of a Chief Judicial Magistrate at Kathua on Monday. Action under law will be taken against those found involved in the incident,” Director General of Police S.P. Vaid told IANS. The chargesheet against seven accused was finally filed in the court after police intervened to control the lawyers’ protest. Former chief minister Omar Abdullah, who criticized the lawyers who tried to prevent the filing of the chargesheet, welcomed the registration of the FIR. “Good. Lawyers who have no respect for law deserve to have the full weight of the law books crash down on them,” the National Conference leader tweeted.

An eight-year-old girl was abducted, raped and murdered in Rassana village in Hiranagar tehsil of Kathua district in January. The body of the girl from the Bakherwal community was recovered from Rassana forest in Kathua on 17 January, a week after she went missing while grazing horses in the forest area.