{"id":172,"date":"2014-03-27T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/kashmir-rapist-gets-death-for-murdering-minor-cousin\/"},"modified":"2014-03-27T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T14:14:00","slug":"kashmir-rapist-gets-death-for-murdering-minor-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir rapist gets death for murdering minor cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Srinagar:<\/b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> A fast track court has handed over a death sentence to a Kashmir man after convicting him of kidnapping and raping a minor girl in 2005.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">According to GNS, The court of Sanjeev Gupta&nbsp;Thursday&nbsp;found Mohammad Rashid Kumar, a resident of Magam Kokernag in south Kashmir\u2019s Anantnag district guilty of murder and rape of her cousin on August 28, 2005.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The accused was given life imprisonment for rape and death penalty for murder of the 12-year-old girl by the court, the counsel for the minor girl said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The slain minor\u2019s father, Abdul Rehman Kumar, a resident of Magam had lodged a complaint that his daughter was kidnapped by her cousin Rashid from her rented room in Jammu.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Rehman had said in his complaint that his son Muzaffar Ahmad, brother of the victim, went out in search of her and when reached near a thoroughfare late in the evening, he saw accused committing forcible sexual intercourse with the minor girl.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">However, the accused had already fled from the spot before leaving her dead near Kachi Chawani in Jammu district.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The police had filed a case and had booked Rashid under section 363,376 and 302 of the Ranbir Penal Code.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The judge in the case noted that Rashid stigmatized the minor\u2019s future life and as such liberal view cannot be taken in favour of convict.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Rehman Kumar while talking to GNS said: today first time since the incident I got sigh of relief after. \u201cI heard that the accused has been awarded death for the heinous crime. I appreciate the fast track court\u2019s decision in giving us justice,\u201d he said. (GNS)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: A fast track court has handed over a death sentence to a Kashmir man after convicting him of kidnapping and raping a minor girl in 2005. According to GNS, The court of Sanjeev Gupta&nbsp;Thursday&nbsp;found Mohammad Rashid Kumar, a resident of Magam Kokernag in south Kashmir\u2019s Anantnag district guilty of murder and rape of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}