August 21, 2018: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Jammu and Kashmir government to file its response on a plea alleging custodial torture of the Kathua case witness by August 27.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud fixed the matter for further hearing on the 29th of this month.
The top court was hearing a plea by Talib Hussain, a key witness in the Kathua case, alleging custodial torture by the state police in an alleged rape case lodged against him by his sister-in-law.
Hussain is a key witness in the Kathua case, in which an eight-year-old girl from a minority nomadic community was abducted in January and gang-raped before being killed. (AIR News)
