Accessed: Court order in horrific Kathua rape and murder case explains life terms for 3 convicts, says "Every possibility to rehabilitate and reform them"

Republic TV has accessed over 400-p order copy in Kathua rape and murder case verdict delivered by Pathankot special court, on Monday, in which life imprisonment has been awarded to three convicts who were masterminds in case and 5-year jail terms for three policemen who were co-conspirators, even as one accused was acquitted.

Subsequent to verdict, a number of activists including Puducherry Lt Gov Kiran Bedi me a pointed case for why convicts should have been given an even more severe punishment while National Commission for Women (NCW) Chairperson Rekha Sharma said she h expected a death penalty. In order copy, main reason behind awarding a life sentence and 5-year term has been specified. P 425 of copy mentions that perpetrators of heius crime weren't previously convicts and states "re is every possibility to rehabilitate and reform m."

"Accordingly, keeping in view all relevant factors in mind, especially fact that accused persons are t a previous convict and re is every possibility to rehabilitate and reform m, refore following sentences imposed upon accused under Ranbir Penal Code (as applicable to State of Jammu Kashmir)," res verdict's p 425.

Here is a section of verdict:

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verdict n goes on to list sentences awarded to each convict.

• Deepak Khajuria, Parvesh Kumar, Sanji Ram have each been awarded: Life imprisonment (Under RPC sections 120-B, 302), twenty-five years imprisonment (under 376-D), ten years imprisonment (under 376-D/511, 328), seven years imprisonment (under 363), five years imprisonment (under 201) and two years imprisonment (under 343).
• Anand Dutta, Tilak Raj, Surinder Kumar have each been awarded: Five-year imprisonment (under 201)

verdict also states that all sentences will run concurrently while ding that period of detention alrey undergone by convicts during pendency of investigation/trial shall be set off against imprisonment awarded.

earlier ps of verdict state facts of case that 'under a criminal conspiracy, an incent eight-year-old mir girl has been kidnapped, wrongfully confined, drugged, raped and ultimately murdered.' It also condemns heius nature of crime stating that perpetrators of this crime have acted in a manner as if 'law of jungle' is prevalent in society.   

Here is that section of verdict: 

Kathua Rape And Murder Case: Three Convicts Sentenced To Life Imprisonment By Pathankot Court

According to 15-p charge sheet filed by Crime Branch, eight-year-old girl, who was kidnapped on January 10 last year, was allegedly raped in captivity in a small vill temple in Kathua district after having been kept sedated for four days before she was bludgeoned to death.

in-camera trial of case commenced in first week of June last year at district and sessions court in Pathankot in neighbouring state of Punjab, about 100 km from Jammu and 30 km from Kathua after Supreme Court ordered that case be shifted out of Jammu and Kashmir.