Before breathing her last on Tuesday, a 16-year-old Bengal girl who was a victim of gang rape managed to name the two attackers who set her on fire before passing away due to high degree burns.
According to a top officer of the Bidhannagar Police Commisionerate, the 16-year-old gang rape victim told police in a dying declaration that her attackers set her on fire, naming Ratan Sil and Minta Sil as the perpetrators.
"In her dying declaration (Tuesday) before a doctor and a police officer, the girl said Ratan Sil and Minta Sil, (accused in the rape case), set her on fire," shared Nimbalkar Santosh, Additional Deputy Commissioner of the Airport Division in an official statement.
Investigators have filed murder chargers against the suspects. Six of the suspects involved in the gang rape case are currently in jail, added the deputy commissioner.
The 16-year-old Bengal girl, raped by the group of men in October 2013, was attacked for a second time after the teen went to the police and filed a complaint against the six people involved in the sexual assault.
The teen and her family members received a barrage of threats and taunts from the suspects until the girl was rushed to the R. G. Kar Hospital on Dec. 23 in critical condition.
The 16-year-old Bengal, who was cremated on Wednesday, reportedly set herself on fire due to the continuous humiliation and attacks she had suffered from the suspects and died of her wounds on Tuesday.
The girl's parents also claimed that the two suspects set their daughter on fire.
"My daughter told police that she was set on fire by Ratan and Minta. They doused her in kerosene and then lit a match. They bolted the door from outside and went away," explained the teen's mother who had reportedly gone to the market on the day of the incident.
Her father, who worked as a taxi driver, also told police his daughter said to them that she had been set afire by the men who had harassed and tormented her.
"When my wife came back, she raised an alarm and neighbours rushed my daughter to hospital," the rape victim's father told police.
After migrating from Bihar just last year and settling in Madhyamgram, the girl and her family had been forced to move to a shanty around the area of Kolkata airport due to the harassment they continued to receive following the arrest of her rapists.
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