New Delhi: Seven men were booked for rape after a woman based in north Delhi lodged a complaint in wake of allegations that several women were sexually assaulted on NH 1 at Murthal in the Sonipat district of Haryana during the Jat quota agitation last week.
The woman alleged that she was dragged out of a van near Murthal, stripped and raped by the men inside a building. Her 15-year-old daughter, too, was pulled out and her clothes torn but the men did not sexually assault her, the survivor told Haryana Police DIG Rajshree Singh, who is heading the panel probing the alleged attacks.
Haryana police were reluctant to link the FIR with the alleged Murthal rapes, believed to have taken place in the early hours of February 22. The Delhi woman alleged she was raped the following day, in the early hours of February 23, police said. Officers also said there seemed to be a family dispute as the woman claimed she knew all her rapists, one of whom was her brother-in-law.
Earlier, the Haryana police have formed a three-member all women committee to inquire into the alleged sexual assault of women. The development occurred a day after the Punjab and Haryana High Court asked the victims to come forward and file complaints directly with chief judicial magistrates.
The incident came to light after reports appeared in a newspaper that said protesters dragged women passengers out of their vehicles and allegedly raped them in fields near the National Highway in Murthal.
