Kathua victim’s lawyer wins Mother Teresa Award-2018

Tribune News Service

Jammu, October 21

Advocate Deepika Rajawat, who fought to seek justice in the Kathua rape-and-murder case, has won the Mother Teresa Memorial Award-2018 for social justice.

The Harmony Foundation hosted the 14th annual Mother Teresa Memorial Awards-2018, at the Taj Lands End, Mumbai, on Sunday. At the award ceremony, people who rescued women and children from captivity along with the survivors of sexual abuse and slavery, who are now leading the fight against this social evil, were honoured.

Deepika has been bestowed with the prestigious ‘Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice’ as support and encouragement to her in the dispensation of justice for the Kathua victim.

Deepika, who is working for the protection of the human rights in J&K since 2008, has been greatly admired for her selfless act of representing the family of the eight-year-old rape-and-murder victim in Kathua.

Earlier, she has been conferred with the ‘Women of the Year Award’ by the ladies wing of the Indian Merchants Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mumbai, in June 2018 for her contribution to women welfare initiatives.