Haryana submits reports on Jat protests, Murthal gangrape to high court

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 30

The Haryana Government submitted former top policeman Prakash Singh committee’s report on February’s violent Jat protests for reservation to the Punjab and Haryana High Court in sealed covers on Monday.

The government also submitted a status report on investigations into the Murthal gangrape.

The court will now hear the case on June 1.

The hearing on Monday witnessed heated exchanges between amicus curiae Anupam Gupta and Haryana Government’s counsel Lokesh Sinhal, with the former summoning Prakash Singh, Haryana DGP KP Singh and additional chief secretary Vijay Vardhan, or alternatively, their affidavit on a deposition by Sukhdev Dhaba’s owner Amrik Singh on the Murthal gangrapes.

Head of the state government’s Special Investigative Team told the court that Amrik broke down during six hours of interrogation but denied the gangrapes.

The amicus curiae however told the court he had been informed that Amrik had told Prakash Singh, KP Singh and Vardhan off camera that women with their clothes in shreds had come to his dhaba on the night of February 22.

The court took suo moto cognizance of media reports that claimed that women were gangraped in Murthal on NH-1 during the violent protests.