Taking serious note of a disturbing complaint, the Haryana Human Rights Commission, on Monday, issued a strong directive in favour of an 82-year-old Arjan Dev Aggarwal and his 72-year-old wife Vijay Aggarwal, both residents of Sector-9 in Panchkula, who have accused their son and daughter-in-law of sustained mental harassment, neglect and coercion to transfer property.

According to the complaint, despite being elderly and suffering from severe health conditions requiring multiple surgeries, the couple has been subjected to isolation, verbal abuse, and psychological trauma while living under the same roof with their son and daughter-in-law.

The complainants allege they were threatened to move into an old-age home and were even falsely implicated in a domestic violence case.

They had also filed an application for eviction under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, before the Senior Citizen Tribunal in Panchkula on January 18 but have received no relief till now.

On her birthday on Saturday, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta visited her native village Nandgarh in Jind district, marking her first visit home after assuming the top post.

In an emotionally charged address, CM Gupta shared stories from her early life, recounting the hurdles she faced during her political journey, especially resistance from her own family.

Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini was also present at the event, along with members of the Gupta family and local residents. A large crowd gathered to welcome CM Gupta on her birthday, celebrating the rise of one of their own to the chief ministerial post.

Speaking to the gathering, Gupta recalled, "When I contested my first college election, my mother was extremely upset. She would say – 'you’ll ruin your future, who will marry you.'” However, she added, her father and uncle always supported her decision to enter public life.

The NHRC has sought a report within two weeks from the Railway Ministry and Haryana Police over a woman's allegedly gang raped in an empty compartment of a stationary train in Panipat last month, an official said on Thursday.

Taking suo motu cognisance of a media report on the June 24 incident, the Commission said that the contents of the news report, if true, raise serious issues of violation of human rights.

Haryana Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi on Wednesday chaired a high-level meeting and reviewed the progress of projects exceeding Rs 100 crore with the respective Administrative Secretaries here.

The Administrative Secretaries presented detailed updates on 25 high-value projects, collectively of over Rs 28,000 crore, spanning sectors like urban development, transport, home, health and industrial growth.

The ED’s Gurugram Zonal Office attached properties worth Rs 681.54 crore and Rs 588.57 crore in the Gurugram zone in two separate money laundering cases linked to Ramprastha Promoters and Developers and Amtek Auto, an official said on Saturday.

In the first case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached immovable properties of Ramprastha Promoters for cheating homebuyers. Investigation revealed that RPDPL collected Rs 1,100 crore from more than 2,000 homebuyers but failed to deliver projects on time.

Family and friends bid a tearful adieu to national-level tennis player Radhika Yadav at her cremation on Saturday, even as the staff at the Gurugram sports academy where she coached youngsters appeared to be in shock a day after her gruesome murder.

While Radhika was consigned to flames at a local cremation ground and her killer father was sent to police custody by a city court, her colleagues at the tennis academy in Sector 57 said they were yet to come to terms with the news of her murder.

A Gurugram court on Friday sent the killer father of national-level tennis player Radhika Yadav to a day's police remand for interrogation, even as her mother failed to give a clear answer on the reason behind the shocking incident.

Deepak Yadav, 49, the 25-year-old victim's father, pumped three bullets into his daughter following an argument over her operating a sports academy at their home in Gurugram on Thursday. He was allegedly upset with his daughter running a tennis academy, the police said.

Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, on Thursday, visited the Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan in Nur Mahal, near Punjab's Jalandhar city, and took part in Guru Purnima.

Union Minister of State for Railways Ravneet Singh Bittu accompanied Chief Minister Saini.

The Chief Minister bowed to the portrait of Ashutosh Ji, head of Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan, and took his blessings.

He expressed his heartfelt greetings to all devotees.

A director-cum-principal was stabbed to death in a private school in a village in Haryana’s Hisar district on Thursday, allegedly by two minor students who were upset at being repeatedly reprimanded for not having a proper haircut and following discipline.

According to information received, the students, one of Class 11 and another of Class 12, attacked director-principal Jagbir Singh Pannu with a knife and repeatedly stabbed him.

The local police reached the spot and started investigating the matter.

A sudden spell of heavy rain battered Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) on Wednesday evening around 7 PM, leading to widespread waterlogging, traffic disruptions, and a red alert from the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

The IMD, in its latest advisory, warned that the weather system moving eastward is expected to bring moderate rainfall across most parts of the region, with isolated pockets likely to witness heavy downpours over the next two hours.

Light to moderate rain was already underway in several eastern parts of Delhi by evening, and conditions were rapidly intensifying.