Gangrape guilty should get severest punishment: Sonia
by IANS
Narwana: The men behind the gangrape of a Dalit girl who committed suicide in a village near this Haryana town should get the severest punishment, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said in Narwana on Tuesday after meeting the victim's family. "Main is tarah ki ghatna ki bharpoor ninda karti hoon. Doshi ko sakht se sakht saza milni chahiye (I criticise in the strongest terms these kind of incidents. The guilty should...  
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