Led by Lal Choudhary, the villagers from Budhi, Barnoti, Nanan, Pandhrad and Thanoon on Sunday staged a protest at Budhi village, in support of their demand of CBI inquiry in the Kathua rape and murder case:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kathua (J&amp;K): BJP MLA &amp; former J&amp;K minister Choudhary Lal Singh leads a protest march demanding CBI inquiry in Kathua case. He says, &#39;Jis din se resignation hua hai, main CBI inquiry ke peeche pada hoon aur main yeh karwaake hi chhodunga&#39;. <a href="https://t.co/Xsiz6WnHlh">pic.twitter.com/Xsiz6WnHlh</a></p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/990866449890709504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kathua: Villagers from Budhi, Barnoti, Nanan, Thanoon villages and others took out a protest march yesterday in Budhi village demanding CBI probe into <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kathua?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kathua</a> rape case. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JammuAndKashmir?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JammuAndKashmir</a> <a href="https://t.co/7fr83Ys5aM">pic.twitter.com/7fr83Ys5aM</a></p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/990724198933979136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The protest was led by prominent citizens, including Roshan Sharma, Rameshwar Kumar, Rampal, Subash Chander and Rakesh dogra.

One of the protestors, Roshan Sharma asked the Chief Minister to respect the sentiments of the people of Jammu who have come on the roads to protest. He also demanded to put the real culprits behind the bars at the earliest.

Members of the transgender community also staged a protest in Kolkata on April 22 against the Kathua and Unnao rape incidents, which resulted in a national outrage.

In Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, an eight-year-old girl belonging to a nomadic Muslim tribe was allegedly abducted, drugged, gang-raped, tortured and killed in January.

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed till May 7 the trial of the accused in the Kathua rape and murder case before the Sessions judge.