Chandigarh: The Haryana government has blamed the lack of social and mental progress for rape cases. "Haryana has progressed economically, but it has not developed mentally and intellectually leading to rising incidences of rape in the state," Haryana Congress MLA Sampat Singh said. This comes days after Haryana Congress spokesperson Dharambir Goyat blamed the women and said that 90 per cent of rapes happen due to consensual sex having gone...
03:38 PM, Oct 15, 2012
'Rape is mostly consensual' - Haryana Congress leader 'Rape is just another method of conception' - Congressman Paul Ryan 'Some girls, they rape ...
11:03 AM, Oct 15, 2012
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...
01:40 AM, Oct 15, 2012
Sonepat (Haryana): A Khap Mahapanchayat held here has appealed to the Centre and Haryana government to grant 'Khaps' the status of Lok Adalats as their decisions on various issues were "unanimous." The meeting, attended by about 70 Khaps, said on Saturday that they were open to government representatives taking part in such meetings and voicing their opinions in the debates. They also demanded that marriage in the same gotra should...
05:37 PM, Oct 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Haryana whistleblower IAS officer who wrote a tell-all letter to the state Chief Secretary revealing the land scams going on across the state on Sunday told CNN-IBN that the Indian political system was such that an honest officer would feel like a rape victim who, in India, is often blamed for the crime. "India is not a banana republic... There are scoundrels in the system. And you...
08:46 AM, Oct 14, 2012
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...
08:01 AM, Oct 14, 2012
Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who blew the lid off land scams, has claimed that he was frequently transferred after he exposed several land scams. ...
12:16 AM, Oct 14, 2012
Chandigarh: A Mahapanchayat attended by several Khaps in Sonepat district on Saturday refuted the idea of a Khap leader that marriageable age of girls should be brought down to 16 years, saying the suggestion was "individual in nature" and should not be seen as stand of the body. The Mahapanchayat, attended by several Khaps or caste councils, did not endorse the suggestion to help curb increasing instances of rape in...
08:50 PM, Oct 13, 2012
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...
07:57 PM, Oct 13, 2012
New Delhi: Amidst a furore over irregularities in land deals in Haryana, a senior IAS officer, Ashok Khemka, has written a tell-all letter to the state Chief Secretary detailing land scams in the state. The letter, accessed by CNN-IBN, demands that security be provided to the officer and his family to protect them from the people hit by the expose. In the letter, Khemka says that several hundred crores worth...
01:25 PM, Oct 13, 2012
Rohtak: Haryana's Sarva Khap Jat Panchayat, which has been at the forefront of demanding reservations for Jats in government jobs, will now discuss the bizarre suggestion that the marriage age for girls be lowered to curb rising incidents of rape in the state. The supreme council is an umbrella body of khap panchayats across the state. Khaps have no legal sanction but often function like kangaroo courts and issue social...
08:26 AM, Oct 13, 2012
Protests, statements and counter statements have begun to take on political colors even as the ground reality continues to remain grim. ...
11:11 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Haryana Congress leader defends his remark on rape case even as his party starts disciplinary proceedings against him. ...
10:55 PM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday distanced itself from its Haryana spokesperson Dharambir Goyat who left the party red-faced by saying that 90 per cent of rapes are consensual. Goyat was issued a disciplinary notice by the Congress and asked to explain his comments. The Congress leader's rape remark, which came following a spate of rape cases in Haryana in the last one month, also came under severe criticism from...
02:06 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Hisar: In an outrageous comment on the recent spate of rapes in Haryana, Congress spokesperson Dharambir Goyat has blamed the women and said that 90 per cent of rapes happen due to consensual sex having gone wrong. In a shocking and bizarre statement, the Congress leader said, "I don't feel any hesitation in saying that 90 per cent of the girls want to have sex intentionally but they don't know...
10:36 AM, Oct 12, 2012
Gurgaon: A seven-year-old girl was Thursday raped and abused by her juvenile neighbour here, police said. A case of abduction and rape was registered against the 17-year-old accused at Sector-5 police station. According to police, the daughter of a man from Bihar, who lives in rented premises with his family in Laxmi Vihar area of sector-5, was abducted by the accused and raped. "We have filed a case of abduction...
11:45 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Fatehabad (Haryana): A man along with his brother on Thursday committed suicide hours after his wife alleged that the duo raped her in the presence of their mother in Bhuna town of the district. The 32-year-old woman, a mother of two, lodged a complaint this morning against her husband Anil and brother-in-law Sunil saying they raped her on Wednesday night, police said. She also alleged that her mother-in-law was present...
11:14 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Rewari (Haryana): In yet another instance of crime against women in Haryana, a director of a coaching centre has been arrested on charges of molesting a student and attacking the husband of his colleague who resisted his attempt to exploit the girl. The accused Om Prakash was today produced in a Kosli court which remanded him in 14-day judicial custody. Om Prakash and Bimla Devi, both residents of Jhajjar district,...
10:50 PM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala on Thursday seemed to have toned down his stance on rapes, albeit he did not totally disown it. After widespread criticism over his backing to the khap Panchayat's bizarre views on rapes and solutions to sexual crimes, the Haryana Opposition leader on Thursday said that he did not support their idea. However, in the same breath he added that he did...
01:44 PM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: Even as CNN-IBN has accessed documents that show that Robert Vadra bought acres of land in Mewat, Haryana, well below the circle rate, the Congress is staying adamant saying it will not order a probe into Vadra's land deals. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said, "You cannot investigate lies. Mr Vadra has done his duty as a private citizen and according to law." Slamming Arvind Kejriwal...
07:43 AM, Oct 11, 2012
