Eight on trial for rape, murder of girl in held Kashmir amid public anger
SRINAGAR: Eight men accused of involvement in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in India-occupied Kashmir state appeared in court on Monday for the first hearing in a case that sparked nationwide outrage and criticism of the ruling party.
The girl, from a nomadic community that roams the forests of Kashmir, was drugged, held captive in a temple and sexually assaulted for a week before being strangled and battered to death with a stone in January, police said.
Public anger at the crime led to…