Kathua case: In Jammu, Vice President calls violence against minor girls shameful

New Delhi: Expressing pain over recent violence against minor girls, Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Monday called for a complete change in the mindset of people about women.
Without naming the Kathua incident, Naidu who was in Jammu said the recent incidents violence against children was unfortunate and shameful. “…but now unfortunately if you see what is happening in certain areas, some incidents involving children, it’s really shameful,” he said while addressing a gathering of scientists at Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), Jammu.
An eight-year-old nomad girl was abducted, gangraped and murdered in Rasana village of Kathua – 8o kilometers from Jammu – in January this year.
The horrific gangrape-and-murder case sparked outrage across the world. Initially, only a juvenile was detained, and the local police claimed the case had been solved. However, after protests by families of the victim and juvenile, the case was handed over to the Crime Branch.
Seven more persons were subsequently arrested, including a former revenue official Sanji Ram, his son Vishal Jangotra, Rasana resident Parvesh Kumar, and four policemen: sub-inspector Anand Dutta, head constable Tilak Raj, SPO Deepak Khajuria and SPO Surinder Kumar
An eight-year-old nomad girl was abducted, gangraped and murdered in Rasana village of Kathua – 8o kilometers from Jammu – in January this year.
The horrific gangrape-and-murder case sparked outrage across the world. Initially, only a juvenile was detained, and the local police claimed the case had been solved. However, after protests by families of the victim and juvenile, the case was handed over to the Crime Branch.
Seven more persons were subsequently arrested, including a former revenue official Sanji Ram, his son Vishal Jangotra, Rasana resident Parvesh Kumar, and four policemen: sub-inspector Anand Dutta, head constable Tilak Raj, SPO Deepak Khajuria and SPO Surinder Kumar
The vice president said that stringent laws were not sufficient to stop violence against women. He said there was a need of political will as well to stem violence against women.