Three days after a gang-rape and suicidal case of Jind district in Haryana, UPA Chairperson and Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi visited on Tuesday to kin to victim and assured that guilty would get harshest punishment.
"Main is tarah ki ghatna ki bharpoor ninda karti hoon. Doshi ko sakht se sakht saza milni chahiye (I criticise, in the strongest terms, these kinds of incidents. The guilty should get the severest punishment)," Gandhi told journalists after meeting to the kin of a 16-years old dalit girl who was raped on Saturday at Sachhakhera village in Haryana's Jind district on 06th October.
The ashamed victim later set ablaze fire herself and died after disclosing the names of the culprits in Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science (PGIMS), Rohtak.
Gandhi, who visited in Sachhakhera village, about 150 km from the state capital Chandigarh, met the family for about 10 minutes and assured them of "full justice".
Commenting upon the rising numbers of rapes and gangrapes in Haryana, where 12 cases have come in the limelight within 28 days, Congress President said, 'these kinds of incidents should stop, not just in Haryana but across the country.'
According to news reports, the victim belonged to a poor, Dalit family. She was allegedly raped by two youths from her neighbourhood Saturday, after which she doused herself with kerosene and set herself ablaze.
The victim was rushed to the PGIMS at Rohtak where she succumbed to burn injuries.
In her dying statement, the victim told the police that she took the extreme step after the rape.
The mother of the victim said Tuesday that if the accused did not get severe punishment and if justice was not done, she would commit suicide herself.
The victim has six younger siblings.
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who had never before visited any of the victims of rape or their families, was present at the village along with state ministers and top civil and police officers during the visit of the Congress president.
Hooda had maintained that "no accused would be spared".
Among those accompanying Gandhi Tuesday was union minister Kumari Selja.
Police have made some headway in this case, arresting five people, including a woman and her policeman husband, on suspicion of conspiring with the rapists.
The woman and her husband, a Haryana police constable, had allegedly stood guard outside the house where the victim was gang-raped.
Haryana cabinet minister Randeep Singh Surjewala, who was present when Gandhi met the victim's family, said that the Congress president and the chief minister had come to offer their condolences to the family.
"The state government is solidly behind the victim's family. The guilty will be brought to book," Surjewala said.
--With IANS Inputs--
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