Here's what Javed Akhtar has to say on Kathua rape case verdict

verdict in Kathua rape and murder case was prounced on Monday, sentencing three of accused to life imprisonment. While verdict came as a sense of some closure to family of eight-year-old, many demanded capital punishment for guilty. However, Javed Akhtar has something else to say.

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veteran lyricist-screenwriter, who is kwn for being vocal on pressing issues, expressed apprehensions that those sentenced must t be let out a few years later despite committing such a 'heius crime'.

" I just saw verdict on television that culprits who were responsible for inhuman barbaric act have been awarded life imprisonment and I also heard that some people were disappointed by verdict because y believed that culprits deserve capital punishment," said Akhtar, who attended a book launch event in city.

"I must, in all honesty, accept that I do t have a clear cut idea about capital punishment, wher it is right or wrong. One thing I am sure about is that capital punishment is t a deterrent of crime because where y have banned capital punishment, crime hasn't increased, and where y have kept it, crime hasn't reduced. So, I have idea that wher y should have been given capital punishment or a life term is good eugh. I am t sure," he opined.

Akhtar went on to say that while verdict prounced may be satisfactory, accused must t be let off after a short while, as is case in many instances.

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"We have seen many times in society that somebody who has committed a heius crime gets life imprisonment and after two-three years you realise that person is released on one ground or or. And n he or she lives happily ever after," said ted lyricist. "I hope life imprisonment is good eugh but it will t have se kinds of privileges that after two or three years same people will be walking out free."

eight-year-old girl, belonging to a mic Muslim tribe, was abducted, drugged, gang-raped, tortured and killed on January 10 last year in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir.

A Pathankot court on Monday convicted mastermind Sanji Ram and two ors for murder, gangrape, and conspiracy and sentenced m to life imprisonment while three police officials were found guilty of destroying evidence and given five-year jail terms.