The men behind the gang-rape of a Dalit girl who committed suicide in a village near a Haryana town should get the severest punishment, said Congress president Sonia Gandhi yesterday after meeting the victim's family.
The victim, aged 16, who belonged to a poor, Dalit family, was allegedly gang-raped by two youths from her neighbourhood on Saturday. She doused herself with kerosene and set herself on fire soon after the incident.
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who has so far been maintaining that “no accused would be spared”, was present at the village along with state ministers and top civil and police officers during the visit of the Congress president to the village in Jind district.
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