The girl had sustained 85 per cent burns within the self-immolation bid on August 16.
Lucknow:
A 24-year-old girl from japanese Uttar Pradesh, who had accused BSP parliamentarian Atul Rai of rape in 2019, has died in a Delhi hospital, every week after she and her male pal set themselves afire exterior the gates of the Supreme Court docket of India. She had alleged that the police in Varanasi, the place she had filed a case, had been colluding with the jailed Member of Parliament and his kin. The girl’s pal had died of burn accidents on Saturday.
The girl had suffered 85 per cent burns within the immolation bid whereas the 27-year-old man had suffered 65 per cent burns, information company PTI had reported. Each had been admitted to the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.
In Could 2019, the girl had filed a case in opposition to Mr Rai, the Ghosi MP, alleging that he had raped her at his residence in Varanasi. He surrendered a month later and has been in jail since.
In November 2020, the BSP chief’s brother filed a forgery case in opposition to the girl in Varanasi. Earlier this month, a court docket issued a non-bailable warrant in opposition to her after the police reportedly advised the court docket that she was untraceable.
The girl and her pal then travelled to Delhi and did a Fb Reside video earlier than setting themselves on fireplace on August 16. Within the video, they accused the police of colluding with the MP and his kin. The 2 mentioned they anticipated no justice.
The arrest warrants, she mentioned, had been issued in opposition to her from two totally different locations — Ballia and Varanasi.
“The vacation spot they wished us in, we have now reached it…The efforts they’ve made for the previous two years, we have now come right here to grasp their objective,” she mentioned within the video with out naming the place the place she was recording the video.
Her pal is then seen saying, “…(they) have been compelling us since November 2020 to die. We wish all you, the individuals of Uttar Pradesh and the nation, to listen to this.”
The person and the girl are then seen dousing themselves in some liquid and setting themselves ablaze.
On August 18, two Varanasi policemen had been suspended following the immolation incident, PTI reported. The suspended officers had been Station Home Officer Rakesh Singh of the Varanasi Cantonment Police Station and investigation officer Girija Shankar who was probing the forgery case in opposition to the girl.
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