Praveen Arora reported in the Tribune exactly a week ago, at the height of the agitation by Jats for inclusion in reservations, that a crowd of stone-pelters on NH-1 at Muthal in Sonepat, the Haryana district that abuts north Delhi, stopped about 100 cars. People fled the cars, including women who were on their way to Delhi’s international airport to return abroad. About ten of them were apparently taken into the fields and raped by some agitators; the rest hid in a nearby dhaba — many in its water tank.

Locals block Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar’s car in Rohtak, unhappy with his handling of the Jat agitation crisis, during which a few women were allegedly raped near the national highway last week. Pic/PTI