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New Delhi: Special public prosecutor JK Chopra said that an accused in the Kathua rape and murder case who claimed to be a juvenile is over the age of 20. A medical report submitted before the district and sessions court on Monday revealed this fact.

District and Sessions Judge Tajwinder Singh had issued directions to the crime branch to conduct a bone ossification test to ascertain the age of Parvesh Kumar alias 'Mannu', one of the eight accused in the brutal rape-and-murder case of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir in January.

New Delhi: Former minister in Jammu and Kashmir governmentand influential Shia leader Imran Ansari hit out at People’s Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti for his working style. He also accused her of nepotism.

"Mehbooba Mufti not only failed the PDP as a party but also dashed the dreams of her father late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed that he had envisaged," Imran said.

He accused Mehbooba of nepotism in the party as well as in the PDP-BJP coalition government she headed. "It had become a family show which was run by brothers, uncles and other relatives. The Peoples Democratic Party has become Family Democratic Party," he said in an apparent reference to induction of Tasaduq Mufti, a political newbie, as cabinet minister earlier this year and giving key position to Sartaj Madni, Mehbooba's uncle, in the party.

New Delhi: In yet another incidence of alleged political killing after two BJP workers were killed in Purlia, a body of the BJP worker was recovered from a pond in a village in Murshidabad district of West Bengal on Monday.

Taking to Twitter, the state BJP accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of killing Dhormo Hazra, whose body with his hands tied, was dumped into the pond. "Dhormo Hazra, Dalit (Chest thumping liberals, please take a note) killed by TMC goons in Murshidabad, West Bengal. Yes, his hands were tied and thrown into pond to die with unbearable pain, Why? He was a BJP worker. In West Bengal reason enough to killed by ruling party terrorist," the party posted on the micro-blogging site.

New Delhi: Social media once again claim a few more lives as rumours about child-lifters gang caused attack on five people. It has claimed their lives as they were visiting a Dhule village in north Maharashtra despite police intervention.

Around 5,000 villagers from the tribal area of Rainpada in Dhuledistrict,were present at the scene on Sunday morning when a mob set upon the visitors on suspicion of them being child-lifters.

Rumours about child-lifters operating in the tribal districts of Dhule and nearby Nandurbar have been flying thick and fast in recent days, both on social media and through word of mouth.