Anger and outrage: Bollywood rallies for Kathua rape victim

Angry, ashamed and heartbroken. This is how the members of the Indian film industry described their feelings over the gruesome gang-rape and murder of a eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua. While the incident had taken place in January, the past few days have seen details of the horrific case surfacing, following the chargesheeting of the accused recently.Celebrities like Priyanka Chopra, Anushka Sharma, Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Swara Bhaskar and many others, have demanded swift justice for the girl, whose body was recovered from Rassana forest in Kathua district on January 17, a week after she went missing while grazing horses in the forest area. She was reportedly held captive inside a temple, and was sedated before being allegedly raped, repeatedly, and eventually, murdered. Bollywood actors have demanded severe punishment for the “horrifying” crime.



















Hundreds of protestors took part in the midnight candlelight march to the India Gate on Friday to protest the Kathua and Unnao rape cases

** The name of the victim has not been revealed in cognizance with the Delhi High Court’s order of Friday