Chandigarh: After being rapped by the Punjab and Haryana High Court for faulty investigations into the Murthal rape allegations, the Haryana Police have added gangrape charges to the FIR in the alleged incident that took place during the Jat quota agitation in February.
The charges were added after an SIT probing the matter took note of letters written by a student and a foreigner that they were raped during the stir.
Haryana Police had denied it claiming there was no conclusive evidence to show that rapes did occur. Sources had said that the Centre was convinced that reports of women being dragged out of cars and raped in Murthal were untrue.
On February 27, three truck drivers had claimed that they witnessed women being dragged and molested by Jat agitators in Murthal. Speaking to mediapersons, the three men Sukhwinder Singh, Niranjan and Naresh Kumar had claimed that the agitators torched their trucks in Murthal, over 50 km from Delhi, and assaulted them following which they hid in the bushes to save themselves.
They had alleged that they saw the attackers "dragging women out of vehicles, tearing their clothes and molesting them" before taking the victims towards the fields. Singh had alleged that "policemen in plain clothes" were putting pressure on them to remain silent about the incident.
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