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Daily Bulletin: Chandrayaan-2 mission launch called off today due to technical snag; Congress calls Karnataka MLAs for legislative party meet; day's top stories
Fp Staff •ISRO's Chandrayaan 2 mission called off an hour before launch after technical snag; Congress calls Karnataka MLAs to meet today, as rebels refuse to budge; day's top stories
Kathua gangrape and murder case: Trial of juvenile, examination of prosecution witnesses to begin on Monday
•A juvenile justice board has framed charges against a minor in the case of gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Kathua and has fixed Monday for examining prosecution witnesses and commencing trial
Here's a timeline of the Kathua rape and murder case
Ankitavirmani •Seventeen months after the kidnapping, gang rape, and murder of a minor girl in Jammu's Kathua district, the Pathankot district and sessions court held six men guilty for the horrific crime.
Kathua rape case: Judgment likely to be delivered on 10 June, a year after trial began in Pathankot court
•The day-to-day in-camera trial began in the first week of June 2018 at the district and sessions court in Pathankot after the Supreme Court directed that the case be shifted out of Jammu and Kashmir.
#MeToo in India: 'Pained, unnerved,' says Kashmiri tribal students' group after Kathua activist accused of rape
Fikrefardasociety •Fikr-e-Farda Society, a group of tribal students from Jammu and Kashmir disassociated itself from a Kathua sexual assault activist who has been accused of rape, saying that it stands by the account of the rape survivor and condemn the shameful act of the activist
#MeToo in India: Media reports name man at forefront of Kathua protests who was accused of rape in anonymous account
Fp Staff •A day after Firstpost published an anonymous account of an incident of rape, media agencies named an activist in the Kathua rape case as the perpetrator
‘Even if my community disowns me, I want justice’: Advocate Deepika Rajawat speaks on Kathua case, fighting abuse and hatred
Neeradp •Advocate Deepika Rajawat who will receive Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice on Sunday, speaks about the challenges she has faced since taking up the Kathua rape and murder case and why people who have been naming sexual harassers under the #MeToo campaign must approach the authorities
#MeToo in India: I was raped by the man leading protests against the Kathua sexual assault; he’s now out on bail
Anonymous •His image as a courageous Muslim man hunted by an anti-Muslim state has not been tarnished even after triple charges of domestic violence and attempt to kill his wife for dowry and allegedly raping a female relative. Male activists like him are inevitably elevated to pedestals, where their crimes against lesser mortals become invisible.
India rolls out sexual offenders database: WCD ministry favours move, activists point out flaws in system
Fp Staff •The National Crime Records Bureau will be tasked to maintain the database and profile of sexual offenders.
SC asks Jammu and Kashmir government to file response on custodial torture of Kathua rape case witness
•The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Jammu and Kashmir government to file its response on a plea alleging custodial torture of the Kathua case witness by 27 August.