Fatehabad

Haryana: 35-yr-old woman commits suicide after gangrape

A 35-year-old woman, who was gangraped by three youths on February 2, allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree in Ghotru village in the district, police said on Saturday. ...  

Haryana set to get its first atomic power plant

Haryana's first atomic power plant will be set up in an area of 1,503 acres in Fatehabad district. The work for erecting a barbed wire fencing around the project site at Gorakhpur started on Monday, an official spokesman said. ...  

Haryana: School says rape victim, sisters left voluntarily

Fatehabad: A 13-year-old rape victim and her two sisters, studying in a government school in Fatehbad, left the institute on their own and were never expelled, authorities said on Sunday. The teenage girl, allegedly raped repeatedly by a 60-year-old fruit seller for the past five months, and her two sisters were enrolled in the Government Middle School in a village in Haryana's Fatehbad district. They were never expelled and left...  

Haryana: Teen rape victim asked to leave school

New Delhi: Another shocker from Haryana where a 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a food vendor outside her school for over three months. Now the school authorities have responded to the incident by throwing out the minor and her siblings out of school. This is the sixteenth rape reported from the state in one month. The 62-year-old accused who runs a food-cart outside victim's school in Fatehabad, allegedly lured...  

Haryana: 13-year-old girl raped by a 60-year-old man

Fatehabad: In another addition to the spiralling cases of rapes in Haryana, a 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an elderly fruit seller in Ratia area in Fatehabad. Police have arrested the vendor Sohan Lal. According to the complaint lodged by mother of the girl, the accused had been raping her daughter during the school hours, police said. The girl, a student of class six in a government school, was...  

Haryana: Woman crushed to death for filing RTI

Fatehabad: A village Sarpanch in Fatehabad in Haryana allegedly crushed a woman to death by mowing her down with his vehicle. He did this because her father-in-law had dared to file a Right to Information application exposing a pension fraud. The victim, Sonu, died and her father-in-law who tried to save her was critically injured. This was not the first time the Sarpanch had allegedly attacked them. Locals say that...