Jammu/New Delhi, January 8: Shubam Sangra, declared an adult by the Supreme Court, has been formally chargesheeted by the J&K Police’s crime branch in a case related to the 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 chargesheet under various sections, including those related to murder, rape, kidnapping and wrongful confinement, before the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Kathua.
The chargesheet was submitted in the Sessions Court in Kathua which has fixed January 24 as the next date of hearing in the case.
According to the Supreme Court order of 2018, the Sessions Court of Pathankot will be hearing the case and the appellate court would be the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
