This story is from April 15, 2018

There were nationwide protests against the Kathua rape-murder

JAMMU: The trial in the gruesome Kathua rape and murder case begins Monday against eight accused who allegedly held an eight-year-old girl in captivity in a small village temple in Kathua district for a week in January this year, during which she was kept sedated and sexually assaulted before being bludgeoned to death.The accused include a juvenile against whom a separate charge sheet was filed.The chief judicial magistrate of Kathua will be committing one of the charge sheets, in which seven people have been named, to the sessions court for trial as mandated under the law. As per the chargesheet filed by the police in the case, the minor was drugged and raped repeatedly before being murdered. I am going to tell Supreme Court that I am in danger," said lawyer Deepika Singh Rawat who has fought for a proper investigation since the girl's body was found in January.
Eight people, including a juvenile and a caretaker for a local temple, go on trial in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir, accused of abducting an eight-year-old girl, keeping her captive, sexually abusing her, and murdering her in a high-profile case that has already been the subject of nationwide protests and pretrial Supreme Court proceedings.