Amid outrage over a spate of rape incidents in Haryana, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today met the family of a Dalit teenaged girl, who immolated herself after being allegedly gang-raped in this district and said perpetrators of such “barbaric” crimes must be given severe punishment.

Road and rail traffic were badly affected in Jind district on Sunday as hundreds of Jat community members blocked roads and railway lines to demand a Special Investigation Team probe into 2010 Mirchpu