The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) and the Jammu High Court Bar Assocation (JHBA) today held candlelight marches here to protest the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in Kathua district.
Scores of state JKCC leaders led by president G A Mir staged nearly an hour-long candlelight vigil in front of Mahatma Gandhi statue at Satwari chowk on Airport road this evening demanding security and protection of the women across the country.
JKPCC senior vice president Sham Lal Sharma said, We will not hesitate to sacrifice our lives for the greater cause of protecting our women from beasts. The attacks on women in the country demonstrate the lawlessness and the failure of the governments to fulfil its basic responsibility of protecting the citizens."