Jat stir: Haryana government forms committee to receive rape complaints

Chandigarh: The Haryana government on Friday setup a committee consisting of three women officers, including a DIG, for receiving any complaint of rape of women in Murthal near Sonepat during the Jat stir.

Additional Chief Secretary of Haryana P K Das said a three-member committee of women police officers has been set up for receiving complaints. The women police officers are DIG Rajshree Singh, DSP Bharti Dabas and DSP Surinder Kaur, he said.

The state government has also set up a helpline number, 18001802057, whereby any person having information about any such incident can share it with the authorities, he said.

Das said the Haryana government was ready to cooperate with statutory bodies like Human Rights Commission and appealed to the public to provide any information they have in this regard to police.

Haryana DGP Y P Singhal said police have not received any such complaint yet but will act swiftly as and when any case is reported. "No report of any such incident has been received so far. No eyewitness has contacted police. The state government and police are fully sensitive and we will act swiftly if anyone provides any information in this regard," Singhal said.

He said no concrete evidence has been found so far that could prove sexual assault on or rape of women in Murthal near Sonepat by arsonists. "Till now, there is no confirmation of this incident. But we will probe the matter with full sensitivity and compassion," he said.

Rejecting reports that local police officers were allegeldy suppressing information of sexual assault, the DGP said no officer at the lower level could suppress any complaint. "It is a sensitive matter and the Chief Minister is seized of it," he said.

"Thirty deaths have so far been reported in the Jat stir but the situation is now normal in the state. A total of 713 FIRs have been registered, while 133 people arrested in this connection," he said.