Jammu: Ankur Sharma, a lawyer defending some of the accused in the Kathua rape-and-murder case today claimed that “jihadis” are behind the gruesome incident. Though Ankur Sharma has no substantial evidence, he alleged that the body of the eight-year-old girl had been planted to change the religious demography of the Jammu and Kashmir. He urged Governor N N Vohra to immediately order a CBI enquiry into the case.
It must be noted that just a day before, the complainant in the case finished recording his statement before the district and sessions court at Pathankot, during which he said Sanji Ram, one of the main accused, had been targeting the nomadic community so that they don’t settle in the village.
Sharma demanding that the case should be handed over to the CBI saying that “jihadis have committed the murder and planted the body there and the murder has been committed to change the religious demography of the area.”
On January 10, an 8-year-old girl, belonging to a minority nomadic community, had disappeared from near her home in a village close to Kathua in the Jammu region. Her body was found in the same area a week later.