Sonia wakes up to Haryana rape cases
9 Oct 2012 7:21 PM IST
With the Congress government facing flak over the series of rape incidents in Haryana, the party president Sonia Gandhi will visit Jind district on Tuesday where a teenaged Dalit girl immolated herself after being raped. The visit comes a day after the local leadership of the party said that it saw a conspiracy to malign the state government in the rape cases.
Sources say that Gandhi is likely to meet the family members of the victim, who belonged to the Narwana area of the district.
The Haryana government had on Thursday formed a three-member committee at district level to investigate, monitor and ensure speedy prosecution of such crimes.
Rattled by increasing number of rape cases in Haryana, the director-general of police Ranjiv Singh Dalal directed senior police officials to tour rural areas to take action against 'vagabonds'. The directive came in the wake of dozen cases of rape reported in the state within a month.
Meanwhile, many Dalit activists from the state have objected to the a khap panchayat's idea that women be married young to save them from sexual violence. 'Boys and girls should be married by the time they turn 16, so that they do not stray.... This will decrease the incidents of rape,' Sube Singh, a khap representative, said.
Sources say that Gandhi is likely to meet the family members of the victim, who belonged to the Narwana area of the district.
The Haryana government had on Thursday formed a three-member committee at district level to investigate, monitor and ensure speedy prosecution of such crimes.
Rattled by increasing number of rape cases in Haryana, the director-general of police Ranjiv Singh Dalal directed senior police officials to tour rural areas to take action against 'vagabonds'. The directive came in the wake of dozen cases of rape reported in the state within a month.
Meanwhile, many Dalit activists from the state have objected to the a khap panchayat's idea that women be married young to save them from sexual violence. 'Boys and girls should be married by the time they turn 16, so that they do not stray.... This will decrease the incidents of rape,' Sube Singh, a khap representative, said.
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