Film stars, directors, singers and composers are unified in condemning the ‘barbaric’ and ‘appalling’ rape of a minor in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district. They are ‘disgusted’ by the silence of the government. Popular celebrities like Priyanka Chopra, Kamal Haasan, Karan Johar, Adnan Sami and Sanjay Dutt have demanded swift justice for the eight-year-old girl, whose body was recovered from Rassana forest in Kathua district on January 17, a week after she went missing while grazing horses in the forest area. She was held captive inside a temple and was sedated before being repeatedly raped and murdered. (Also Check: Javed Akhtar demands justice for Asifa the Kathua rape victim

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The celebrities have demanded severe punishment for the “horrifying” crime.