BJP should answer why its then ministers in J-K supported

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi Monday said the BJP should answer why its ministers in the previous Jammu and Kashmir government attended a rally in support of the accused in the Kathua case.

"BJP needs to answer as to why their ministers came out in support of those accused," he told reporters here.

He claimed ministers belonging to the BJP (in the erstwhile BJP-PDP coalition) attended a rally in support of the accused.

Replying to queries on the verdict in the case, he said "justice should be done whichever religion the accused belongs to."

He cited incidents of offences against girls and women at Indore, Gaya in Bihar and Gorakhpur and said justice should be done.

According to him, his party had condemned such incidents whichever religion the accused belonged to.

Six of the seven accused in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Kathua were convicted by a court at Pathankot on Monday.

Talking about arrest of journalists in Uttar Pradesh, he claimed .