New Delhi: The Centre is convinced that reports of women being dragged out of cars and raped in Murthal during the Jat quota agitation were untrue, sources said Thursday.
The Ministry of Home Affairs came to the conclusion based on a report submitted by the Haryana government which said no eye witnesses or victims had so far come up before authorities to depose about the alleged incident. Eye witnesses quoted in news reports, whom the police spoke to, said there were no incidents of women being molested or raped.
News reports had said that at least 10 women were sexually assaulted by around 30 men early in the morning on February 21.
The reports had alleged that women commuters were dragged out of their cars at Murthal on the Delhi-Ambala national highway, and raped in the fields.
The state government's report also said the women's under garments found strewn in the fields came from a nearby garment shop that was looted and not from alleged rape victims. Eyewitnesses also told the police they saw rioters opening bundles of clothes in the fields after looting the shop.
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