{"id":305555,"date":"2018-11-15T09:08:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T09:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305555"},"modified":"2018-11-15T09:39:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T09:39:21","slug":"kathua-rape-and-murder-case-victims-family-drops-lawyer-deepika-rajawat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kathua-rape-and-murder-case-victims-family-drops-lawyer-deepika-rajawat\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathua rape and murder case: Victim&#8217;s family drops lawyer Deepika Rajawat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305560 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rajawat.1jpg-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/rajawat.1jpg-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/rajawat.1jpg-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/rajawat.1jpg.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The family of the eight-year-old Kathua rape and murder victim had reportedly decided to drop their lawyer Deepika Rajawat as she has barely been available during court proceedings, the victim&#8217;s father said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An application was moved in the Pathankot court in Punjab which states that the power of attorney given in her favour was being withdrawn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to victim\u2019s father, Rajawat had appeared only 2-3 times in the case even as it is proceeding day to day as per the Supreme Court&#8217;s order for the last five months at Pathankot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajawat had shot to fame after she fought the case initially in spite of having received threats from various parties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, in her recent interview she had expressed fears about threats to her life. A section of population in Jammu had opposed her decision to take up the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I am sure they will kill me one day. I feel threatened that my family or I might be harmed physically. Also, I feel my attempts will be made to damage my dignity,\u201d she had said in an interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In another interview, she had said that even if her community disowned, she wanted justice in the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Now it seems that the threats have finally made it difficult for her to continue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The victim in the infamous Kathua rape and murder case was kidnapped on January 10 and raped in captivity at a small village temple before being bludgeoned to death. The rape and murder triggered a global outrage, leading even the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to promise justice to the \u201cour daughters\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Supreme Court, on the plea of the victim\u2019s father, shifted the case to Pathankot and ordered day-to-day in-camera trial to ensure a speedy justice. The trial began on May 31. There are 226 witnesses in the case mentioned by the CB in its charge sheet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of the eight-year-old Kathua rape and murder victim had reportedly decided to drop their lawyer Deepika Rajawat as she has barely been available during court proceedings, the victim&#8217;s father said. An application was moved in the Pathankot court in Punjab which states that the power of attorney given in her favour was being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9693,9690,9692,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305555"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305563,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305555\/revisions\/305563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}