‘Raped’ by BSP MP, woman who set herself on fire dies

Wednesday, 25 August 2021Newsdesk

The 24-year-old woman who had set herself on fire along with a friend outside the Supreme Court last week succumbed to burn injuries on Tuesday. The man, a 27-year-old Delhi University graduate, had died during treatment on Saturday.

New Delhi, 25 August 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, the woman, a student in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur district, had come to Delhi with her friend on August 16. Before setting themselves on fire the same day, they recorded a Facebook Live video, wherein the woman said she had lodged a rape case against BSP MP Atul Rai, and alleged that senior IPS officers and a judge from Uttar Pradesh were “part of a nexus”. The woman had sustained 85% burn injuries and the man 65%. A senior official at RML Hospital, where they were admitted, said, “We performed surgeries on them the day they were brought to us, but they had severe burn injuries and treatment was difficult. They suffered organ failure.”

Source -The Indian Express