New Delhi /June, 10: Six of the seven accused, including the mastermind Sanjhi Ram, were Monday convicted by a special court in the sensational gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, said a media report
Six out of seven accused including mastermind Sanjhi Ram, special police officer Deepak Khajuria, Surender Verma, Tilak Raj, and Anand Dutta were convicted by a court in Pathankot, reported India Today.
However, Sanjhi Ram’s son has been spared, it said.Over 1,000 policemen and security personnel have been deployed in and around the Pathankot court, where the trial was shifted given the highly sensitive nature of the case.
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 likely to be delivered on June 10.
Mother of the Kathua girl told India Today TV that she wants the perpetrators hanged. “We want justice. We want them to hang. It has been so long they haven’t been punished even now,” he said.
