SRINAGAR: The trial of Subham Sangra, an accused in the gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Jammu’s Kathua, who was earlier declared as a juvenile formally began on Wednesday in the district court Pathankot, Punjab, Times of India reported.
The matter was listed for hearing before the additional session judge Pathankot court. This was the first hearing of the case in Pathankot after the Supreme Court transferred the trial out of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir due to the sensitivity of the case.
A charge sheet was already presented by the police against Subham on accounts of murder, rape, kidnapping, and wrongful confinement.
Subham was brought from Kathua jail and produced before the Pathankot court. The next hearing in the case has been scheduled on June 17.
In November, last year, the supreme court accepted the authorities’ plea and ordered to treat Subham as an adult. Six of the other accused in this case had already been found guilty by the Pathankot court in 2019 after being tried. And one accused was given benefit of doubt and later acquitted.
Subham, who was the eighth accused in the case could not be tried because he was declared as a juvenile by the Juvenile Justice Board and the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, after which an appeal was filed in the Supreme Court.
