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Haryana outrage: Lok Dal MLA, wife slap, threaten physically challenged Dalit rape victim

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Posted: Oct 29, 2012 at 1547 hrs IST
MLA protecting nephew who allegedly raped victim and made obscene video of crime.

Chandigarh Haryana has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in recent weeks with criminals of all kinds perpetrating atrocities against women for months. Now, a pillar of the govt, a Member of the Legislative Assembly has added to the shock value of news flowing from the state.

Haryana Police have registered a case against opposition Indian National Lok Dal MLA from Loharu, Dharampal Obra and his wife Sheela for allegedly slapping and threatening a 30-year-old physically challenged rape victim and her husband.

The two have also been booked for allegedly using casteist remarks against the victim and her husband, who are Dalits and hail from Obra village in Bhiwani.

"We registered an FIR on Saturday against Obra's nephew Rajinder, who has been booked for raping the victim and making her video clips and threatening the victim.

"Dharampal Obra and his wife have been booked for slapping the victim, using casteist remarks and for threatening the couple," Bhiwani's Superintendent of Police, Simardeep Singh said today.

In her complaint, the victim has alleged that between October 2011 to February 2012, Rajinder, also from Obra village, raped her when her husband was away to Rajasthan for few months and made a video clip and threatened to eliminate her if she disclosed the incident to anyone.

However, in February, when the victim's husband returned she narrated the incident to him.

The victim has alleged that the MLA stepped in to put pressure not to lodge complaint against Rajinder and along with his wife slapped them and hurled abuse.

Simardeep Singh said that the victim had approached the police in May this year with her complaint, "but soon retracted her statement".

"Now, again she has lodged the complaint. We have registered the case against relevant Sections of the IPC. The investigation is under progress. No arrests have so far been made as we are collecting evidence," Singh said.

Meanwhile, the 57-year-old first-time MLA, a retired school master, trashed the allegations against him as "baseless", saying there is "no truth in these".

"I am open to any investigation. There are some vested interests who are behind this to tarnish my image. I never slapped or threatened the woman or her husband," the MLA maintained.

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People should teach the MLAS wife a lesson by raj on 29 Oct 2012

It is time people like our dear Mahatma Gandhi start protesting and get rid of this insects. It will be good if Dalit organizations give a taste of what rape means to this MLAs wife. It would be better if our supreme court awards this punichment to MLA and his wife. Let them taste what cruelty to women means and that too a poor, weaker and mentally challenged women means.

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