Last year’s brutal gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua district was back in the spotlight, with former state minister Choudhary Lal Singh referring to the BJP leaders in the state as “more dangerous than Kashmiris”, and criticising the PMO for not ordering a CBI inquiry into the incident.
Singh, who was a BJP leader, was asked to resign from the Cabinet along with Chander Parkash Ganga last year after the two met the families of the eight men accused in the Kathua case. The two leaders had also publicly backed the families’ demand for a CBI probe into the incident.