Girl alleges rape, lover held

AMBALA: Feeling betrayed in love, a 20-year-old Dalit girl got a case of rape registered against her lover with the Naraingarh police on Thursday. Cops arrested him the same day. The girl and the boy used to work in a factory at Tirlokpur of Himachal Pradesh.
The girl of Bada village and an upper caste boy, Gurmeet, of Husaini village had eloped on June 5.They returned to the boy's house on July 13.
In her complaint, she alleged that when she asked the boy to marry her, he and his family refused. Disappointed, the girl narrated her ordeal to the sarpanch of Husaini.
To settle the matter amicably, the sarpanch called a panchayat at Naraingarh on Thursday. It was attended by both the families.
However, during the course of negotiations, heated words were exchanged between the girl and boy