Artist’s house attacked for drawing victim’s photograph

ACCUSED IN KATHUA CASE FAILS EXAM

MEERUT: THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:

Vishal Jangotra, an accused in the rape and murder case of a minor nomadic girl in Kathua in January this year, has failed in his first semester examination of BSc (agriculture), an official at the Chaudhary Charan Singh University (CCSU), Meerut, said. An office superintendent at CCSU, Arshad, said in two theory papers conducted on January 12 and 15, Vishal got 0 and 2 marks respectively. Though the official failed to confirm the name of the two papers, he said the subject codes were 192 and 193. The two papers in which he got lowest marks assume significance as these were conducted at a time when, according to SIT, he had joined the other accused in Jammu to commit the crime. HTC

A group of men allegedly attacked the house of artist Durga Malathi in Kerala’s Palakkad on Thursday for drawing the picture of the eight-year-old girl gang-raped and murdered in

Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua, police said on Friday. “We have registered a case and identified some of the assailants,” a senior police officer said. The window panes of Malathi’s house were broken and a vehicle parked on the porch damaged in the alleged attack. Malathi said in a post on Facebook that a group reached her house around midnight and started stoning her house. “They threatened me with dire consequences if I draw more pictures and paintings depicting the plight of the victim,” she said. HTC