"If some Khap or individual has made suggestion about a girl's marriageable age, then it is up to the government to accept it or not. Anybody can give suggestion...but my support to it (Khap Panchayat suggestion) has been attacked.
"But I want to say that we neither supported it nor we made such a demand or suggestion," Chautala told reporters in Chandigarh.
The INLD leader had on Wednesday backed the suggestion of Khap panchayats that marriageable age of boys and girls should be reduced to 16 years to prevent youths from straying.
"I had told media persons yesterday that during the Mughal era, girls were picked up and they were raped. In order to avoid such incidents and embarrassment to families, girls' parents used to get their daughters married at an early age," he said.
Chautala said the INLD had submitted a memorandum to the Haryana governor demanding a special session of the assembly to discuss the issue of increasing number of rape cases in the state.
