New Delhi, Apr 26: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to consider a plea by two of the accused in the Kathua gang-rape and murder case seeking a CBI probe. They also want the trial to be held in Jammu.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud considered the plea by Sanji Ram and Vishal Jangotra that they be impleaded as parties to the petition filed by the victim's father.
The eight-year-old victim's father had moved the apex court earlier, apprehending a threat to the family, a friend and their lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawat.
Expressing satisfaction with the probe conducted by the Jammu and Kashmir police in the case, the father had also sought transfer of the trial from Kathua court to Chandigarh.
However, the accused are asking for the opposite, seeking a CBI probe and a trial in Kathua district itself.
The child from a minority nomadic community had disappeared from near her home in a village near Kathua in Jammu region on January 10. Her body was found in the same area a week later.
The state police's Crime Branch, which investigated the case, filed the main charge sheet against seven people and a separate charge sheet against a juvenile in a court in Kathua district last week.
The charge sheet revealed chilling details about how the girl was allegedly kidnapped, drugged and raped inside a place of worship before being killed.
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