New Delhi [India], April 27 (NT): The Supreme Court on Friday will resume hearing of the most brutal and heated case of alleged rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl belonging to Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua area.

The case dates reverse to January when a minor girl belonging to the Sunni-Muslim nomadic Bakerwal Tribe was allegedly kidnapped, drugged, gang-raped, tortured and killed.

On Thursday, the investigation panel of the Bar Council of India (BCI) rejected claims that lawyers of the Jammu Bar had threatened the raped victim's lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawat.

The investigation panel also discarded allegations that the police had been stopped from filing a charge-sheet in court.

Senior Supreme Court lawyer Vikas Singh who appearing on behalf of the Jammu and Kashmir Bar Association, stated a three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra that no lawyer had threatened Rajawat or had stopped the police from filing a charge sheet against the accused.

"Nobody or no lawyer has threatened the victim's lawyer, Deepika Singh Rajawat, and or stopped the police from filing the charge sheet against the accused persons in the alleged Kathua rape and murder case," Singh asserted in the court.

The top court observed, "We are only concerned with the victim's families getting justice expeditiously, or, about how the investigation and trial would go on. Let us be clear and focus on investigation and about the trial of the case."

Chandan Sharma, the lawyer of two of the accused-Sanji Ram and Vishal Jangotra – asserted the court that the inquiry must be fair, transparent and well judged as it is the minimum necessity of the rule of law.