TNN | Oct 11, 2012, 12.57AM IST
KAITHAL/KARNAL/YAMUNANAGAR: A day after Congress chief Sonia Gandhi visited the family of a minor dalit girl who killed herself after being raped in Haryana's Jind district, another 19-year-old dalit girl who is five months pregnant was abducted and gang-raped by two upper-caste youth in Kalayat town in Kaithal district. One more case of assault in May was reported late on Tuesday and, additionally, a 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped in Yamunanagar late on Monday, taking the number of such cases to 17.
The latest incident puts Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, whose government has been accused of failing to prevent growing atrocities against women, in a tight spot. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Wednesday demanded Hooda's immediate intervention to ensure prompt investigation, adequate rehabilitation and protection of the victims, their families and witnesses.
The May 21 gang-rape, in Bijna in Karnal, was followed by suicide of the girl's father. Police said the case was registered five months after the crime and they arrested two youth on Wednesday. The girl who lodged the complaint said the accused had threatened her with death if she or her family approached the police.
The Kaithal rape victim, in a complaint filed by her father on Tuesday, alleged she was abducted from the fields near her house and taken to a nearby village in a car on October 8. The complainant added she was raped the entire night and dumped near her house the next morning.
Both the accused, Pawan and Rakesh, who belong to the same town, were arrested on Tuesday and sent to two-day police remand. "After the victim's father lodged a complaint, she gave her statement before a magistrate on October 9. A police team nabbed the accused near Kalayat," said Kaithal SP Kuldeep Yadav.
The police have registered a case of rape and kidnapping and also charged the accused under various sections of the SC/ST Act. "The victim in her complaint also alleged the accused made castiest remarks against her," said Yadav. The victim had married six months ago and was living at her parents' house following a dispute with her husband. The rape comes a day after a 20-year-old maid was allegedly raped by her employer in Faridabad.
In the Yamunanagar rape, police arrested a man, Gurmeet, a resident of Tapri village in Ambala district. As Yamunanagar district borders Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district with the victim raped being raped near the border, a dispute over territorial jurisdiction between the police departments of the two states delayed the registration of the case against the accused.The Kaithal rape victim, in a complaint filed by her father on Tuesday, alleged she was abducted from the fields near her house and taken to a nearby village in a car on October 8. The complainant added she was raped the entire night and dumped near her house the next morning.
Both the accused, Pawan and Rakesh, who belong to the same town, were arrested on Tuesday and sent to two-day police remand. "After the victim's father lodged a complaint, she gave her statement before a magistrate on October 9. A police team nabbed the accused near Kalayat," said Kaithal SP Kuldeep Yadav.
The police have registered a case of rape and kidnapping and also charged the accused under various sections of the SC/ST Act. "The victim in her complaint also alleged the accused made castiest remarks against her," said Yadav. The victim had married six months ago and was living at her parents' house following a dispute with her husband. The rape comes a day after a 20-year-old maid was allegedly raped by her employer in Faridabad.
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