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Haryana saw 60 rape cases a month in 2011
October 14, 2012
They were meeting to discuss how to calibrate their demand for reservations in government jobs.
But the 100-odd old men, all clad in white, some turbaned, gathered in a dharamshala 40 kms from Delhi, as part of Sarv Jat Khap Panchayat, a community body of Haryana's Jats, spent the bulk of their time debating whether girls should be married young '" well below the officially permissible age of 18.
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