Summary:
Last month, when a nomad family from Kathua district, 80 kilometres away from Jammu, filed a missing report for their 8-year-old daughter , among those appointed to trace her was a young Special Police Officer (SPO) called Deepak Khujaria. "On the funeral day of the girl, when we were lathicharged and I was arrested, this man hounded nomads and beat them up. Sources say Deepak had threatened his underage accomplice with the murder of his parents if he revealed his name. But after allegations of a botched up investigation against the Kathua Police, the case was handed to over to the Crime Branch. Mr Puri said the involvement of more people cannot be ruled out..