30-yr-old woman raped, burnt to death in Rewari

ROHTAK: A 30-year-old married woman of Dulhera Khurd village of Rewari district was raped then burnt to death on Tuesday night.

According to reports, the woman was asleep when the accused barged into the house and committed the crime. Her husband was reportedly not at home at the time. Cops said the accused, Narpal Singh, was arrested and investigation was on. They said the man set the woman afire by pouring kerosene on her when she tried to raise the alarm.

Rewari SP Vikas Kumar Arora told TOI that the rapist has been booked under sections 302 (murder) and 376 (rape). Police had earlier registered a case of abetment to suicide under Section 306 of IPC.Victim's husband Zile Singh said he was away to a marriage party, "the accused escaped though some neighbours tried to catch him".

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Rs 86 cr Dharuhera projects get govt nod

GURGAON: In a bid to push the infrastructure augmentation in Dharuhera, which is emerging as a residential hub next to Gurgaon on NH-8, the Haryana government approved two major projects - canal-based water supply and sewerage management - for the town. The two mega projects will cost about Rs 86.02 crore to the state government.

Officials said while the canal-based water supply project involves an investment of Rs 67.85 crore, the sewerage system project will cost Rs 18.17 crore.

Haryana power minister and Rewari MLA Ajay Singh Yadav said after the implementation of the two schemes, water supply per person could increase to more than 135 litres per day. Yadav said there is also a provision to construct three boosting stations in the various colonies of Dharuhera.

The government has already sanctioned Rs 16.89 crore for acquisition of land and work would begin soon.

Yadav said the sewage treatment plant of 6 million litres per day (MLD) capacity, to be set up over an area of four acres land for different colonies of Dharuhera, has been approved by the government and Rs 1.5 crore already sanctioned for land acquisition, and that the work would start soon.

Dharuhera is a census town in Rewari district and falls under the NCR. The Dharuhera Industrial Estate located on both sides of NH-8 is close to IMT Manesar, Bhiwadi, Khuskhera, Chopanki, Tapukra, Rewari, Bawal, Neemrana and a part of upcoming Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC). The region has many large manufacturing plants such as Honda, Hero Honda, Maruti Suzuki, Minda Industries, Amtek Auto, Delphi, Sona Koyo Steering and RICO Auto.

Dharuhera, which is just 25-minutes drive from Gurgaon, has become the new hotspot for real estate development. The town is likely to grow rapidly considering the upcoming Kundli-Manesar-Palwal expressway.

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Inter-caste marriage: IAS groom denies row, blames media hype

ROHTAK: After much hullabaloo in Bhiwani over the high profile inter-caste marriage of IFS officer Neelam Sharma with IAS officer Kuldeep Yadav, the groom told TOI that there never was any controversy about their marriage.

He said the bride's family has been particularly very hurt since "the media has blown the issue out of proportion." Meanwhile, residents of his village Baldhan Kalan in Rewari district were enthused about the wedding. The village sarpanch said they were eager to welcome the newly wed couple home after their marriage in Delhi on November 8.

• Talking to The Times of India over phone, Kuldeep Yadav, a Gujarat cadre IAS officer, said the media created a hype over the marriage which is disturbing, especially for the family of Neelam, a resident of Patrawali village of Bhiwani. "Everything is going smoothly and we are busy with preparations for the wedding ceremony, which will be held in Delhi on November 8. The media was blowing the issue out of proportion which hurt us both and Neelam's family in particular is upset with this".

Asked about objections by some people from Neelam's village, he said he would not like to comment on this at this moment and would be happy to discuss the issue with media on November 9 (a day after the marriage).

Sarpanch of Baldhan Kalan village, Nawal Kumar said that the entire village was happy over the marriage. Kumar said that a pre-wedding community feast has been organized by Kuldeep's family in the village on November 7, adding that there was no objection from anybody regarding the inter-caste status of the couple.

Obviously upset over media reports, Neelam's family is not willing to talk to mediapersons on the issue. Neelam's brother Pawan Sharma said they would invite family members and other villagers whom they expected to attend the wedding ceremony.

Sunil Shastri, a villager who is close to Neelam's family, said that he has been extended an invitation and would like to attend the ceremony. He however said that a section of villagers might not be happy over the inter-caste marriage but there was no opposition or threat to the family.

Head of Brahmin Sabha, Mahender Sharma clarified that community elders had objection over the decision of Neelam's family to marry her outside the caste, but there was no opposition to the marriage. "There has been no instance of an arranged marriage outside the caste though youngsters had solemnized love marriages. Community elders expressed their objection but there was no disapproval or threat to the marriage", he said.

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Rewari Young lovers commit suicide

Rewari (Har), Nov 7 (PTI) Two young lovers allegedly committed suicide by jumping into a dry well after the girl's family opposed their marriage, police said today. The 21-year-old girl and her 23-year-old lover hailed from Garhi Ruthal village in Mahendergarh district, about 45 kms from here, they said. The girl was a student of BA (final year) while the youth was a graduate and both belonged to the Dhanak community (SC), they said. When the girl's parents realised that the two had decided to marry, they arranged her marriage with another youth, they said, adding, out of frustration, both committed suicide on October 29. In a similar incident, two teenaged lovers allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a speeding train in UP's Sant Kabir Nagar. Jitendra Vishwakarma (19) and Tikkal (18) took the extreme step yesterday as their parents disapproved of the relationship, they said. The bodies have been sent for postmortem and an investigation is on, police said.

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