Ambala: Police on Tuesday booked two trainee constables on the charge of molesting a minor girl in Ambala. Later, the victim, a student of class VIII, disclosed that only one of the constables molested her. He was later identified as Sunil Kumar.
According to police, the girl was staying with her mother in a rented house. A youth was residing there as a paying guest and was a friend of the two constables. The constables stayed in his room last night.
The victim girl alleged that one of the constables molested her in the morning. Later she briefed the matter to her mother who informed the neighbours. The neighbours caught both the constables and beat them. One of the constables managed to flee from there. On the statement of the victim, the police registered a molestation case against them.
Later the constable who fled was also nabbed. Kumar was arrested while the other would be released after legal formalities as the girl stated him to be innocent. The girl was later taken to civil hospital for medical examination....
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09:54 PM, Nov 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Haryana police on Monday arrested six more people in connection with the Karnal gangrape case, taking the total number of arrests to 13. These include a female relative of the 16-year-old victim. The minor was reportedly lured out of her house by her boyfriend on the pretext of getting married, taken to a railway track nearby and raped. Two more accused are said to be still absconding,...
11:16 AM, Nov 05, 2012
Two more rapes reported in the last 24 hours in Haryana, making the tally of 15 rapes in 31 days. ...
05:19 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Smriti Irani took on the Congress over rising rape cases in Haryana, saying the government was unable to stop these acts. "On the same day that Sonia Gandhi visited Jind, there is a new rape case. It is evident that the government is full of scams and is unable to put a full stop to the crimes," she said. Two more rape cases have been ...
03:45 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Chandigarh: Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala has backed Khap Panchayat leaders' bizarre solution for rape. Chautala also compared the rapes in Haryana to Mughal atrocities. He said that in the Mughal era, people used to marry their girls to save them from Mughal atrocities and currently a similar situation is arising in the state. "I completely support the Khap Panchayat's decision. It is a good way to protect...
03:17 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday sent out a sharp message to Khap panchayats saying they cannot supersede the judiciary. ...
09:40 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Taking a tough stance on the rising number of rapes in the country, especially after a spate of incidents were reported in Haryana, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday sent out a sharp message to Khap panchayats saying they cannot supersede the judiciary. Sonia also said that strictest action will be taken against the culprits in the rape cases. She said those guilty of such heinous crimes, which take place ...
03:42 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Sacha Khera: Taking a tough stance on the rising number of rapes in the country, especially after a spate of incidents were reported in Haryana, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday sent out a sharp message to Khap panchayats saying they cannot supersede the judiciary. Sonia also said that strictest action will be taken against the culprits in the rape cases. She said those guilty of such heinous crimes, which...
01:40 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Taking a tough stance on the rising number of rapes in the country, especially after a spate of incidents were reported in Haryana, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said that strictest action will be taken against the culprits. Visiting the rape victims in Jind, Haryana, Sonia slammed khap panchayats saying India was a democracy and the law of the land was in the hands of the judiciary and "no ...
12:23 PM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: 10.30 am: Sonia Gandhi is the first Congress leader to meet the rape victims. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who hasn't met a single rape victim so far, accompanies Sonia. 10.25 am: "Khap cannot decide law, it is in the hands of the judiciary," says Sonia. 10.18 am: Sonia Gandhi refuses to comment on the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government; Says that rapes happen everywhere and are not restricted...
10:22 AM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: Two more rapes have been reported in Haryana. While a minor was raped in Panipat, in Ambala, a widow was allegedly raped. The police have registered a case, however, no arrests have been made so far. This takes the tally of reported rapes in Haryana over the past one month to 13. The reports also come on a day when Congress President Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to visit...
09:12 AM, Oct 09, 2012
Hisar: Congress President Sonia Gandhi will on Tuesday visit the rape vicitims and their families in Jind, Haryana. Her visit comes three days after a Dalit teen girl set herself on fire after being gangraped by four men. The Congress government in Haryana had been criticised for doing too little too late. Although the Hooda government has set up a three-member panel to look into the rising number of rapes...
07:15 AM, Oct 09, 2012
Following the gangrape of a teenaged Dalit girl in Jind, who went on to commit suicide, a khap member in Haryana seemed to blame the victims for the rape. Speaking to a CNN-IBN reporter, khap panchayat member Sube Singh said that the only solution to rapes was to get girls married at the age of 16. His explanation for how it would prevent rapes was equally bizarre. He said that ...
03:30 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Hisar: There is outrage over a Haryana Khap member's statement that girls must be married off at 16 years of age to avoid being raped. The Dalit community has rejected the Khap's suggestion of lowering the marriageable age, calling it a sick mindset. "Reducing the marriageable age won't make a difference. It's not the age, but the mindset of the culprit that's responsible," Dhanik Samaj leader Jongi Ram Khundia said....
11:45 AM, Oct 08, 2012
