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All accused to be produced before court on May 31

KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 5/30/2018 3:19:27 PM

JAMMU, May 29: All eight people accused in Kathua minor rape and murder case will be produced before a court in Pathankot in Punjab on May 31 after the transfer of trial from Kathua in accordance with the directions of the Supreme Court.
The Crime Branch will produce the charge sheet in the case as well as all the accused in the case before the district and sessions judge in Pathankot on the first hearing.
Officials said a police team along with the staff of Kathua's district and sessions judge would present all the files to the court in Pathankot, 30 km from Kathua, and request permission to translate all the documents from Urdu to English.
Citing security concerns in transporting the accused to court, the public prosecutor would move a plea to keep them in judicial custody in Pathankot, the officials said.
After several petitions in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court as well as the Supreme Court, the case is finally set to move to the trial stage with the apex court directing the district and sessions judge in Pathankot to hold an in-camera hearing.
"The learned district and sessions judge, Pathankot, shall himself take up the trial and not assign it to any additional sessions judge and shall fast-track the trial and take it up on day-to-day basis so that there is no delay in trial," the three-judge bench of the Supreme Court order had said earlier this month.
The Crime Branch had submitted a charge sheet in the crime on April 9 before the Kathua court.