Kathua gangrape-murder case: Charge sheet filed against juvenile declared adult by Supreme Court in

Kathua, 8/1: Shubam Sangra, declared an adult by the Supreme Court, is formally chargesheeted by the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s crime branch in a case related to the sensational gangrape and murder case of an eight-year-old in Kathua in 2018.

Though the trial is expected to start in neighbouring Punjab’s Pathankot, as ordered by the Supreme Court in 2018, the crime branch submitted its charge sheet under various sections including those related to murder, rape, kidnapping and wrongful confinement before chief judicial magistrate in Kathua.

The charge sheet was committed to sessions court in Kathua which has fixed January 24 as the next date of hearing in the case.