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Teen rape victim commits suicide
Updated On: 20 October, 2009 01:59 PM IST | | PTI
A teenage girl, who was allegedly raped, has succumbed to her burn injuries in a civil hospital in Thane, after she set herself ablaze after the incident, police said today.
A teenage girl, who was allegedly raped, has succumbed to her burn injuries in a civil hospital in Thane, after she set herself ablaze after the incident, police said today.
The rape victim set herself on fire last week died on Monday after she was shifted here from the Sahapur hospital with more than 80 per cent burns, they said.
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The teenager, a resident of Rasgaon village was allegedly raped by a carpenter in tribal Sahapur taluka on October 11 and was kept in captivity by him for two days and sexually assaulted, they said.
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