The Congress welcomed the court verdict in the Kathua rape-and-murder case on Monday and hoped that the victim’s family would be able to “find justice” in it.
A court in Punjab’s Pathankot sentenced the three main accused in the gangrape-and-murder case of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Jammu &Kashmir’s Kathua to life imprisonment on Monday, while awarding a five-year jail term to three others for destruction of evidence. “We welcome the High Court’s judgment in the Kathua rape & murder case (sic),” the Congress wrote on its Twitter handle, adding that it hoped that through the verdict, the girl’s family could “find justice”.
