Unnao rape victim s death shameful hope UP govt hangs culprits Kejriwal

Delhi | Saturday | 7th December, 2019

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NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday called the death of the rape victim from Unnao "shameful" for every Indian and said he hoped that the Uttar Pradesh government will hang the culprits "to set an example" for the society. The rape victim, who was airlifted to a Delhi hospital after she was set ablaze allegedly by five persons, including two men accused of raping her, died on Friday night. The postmortem of the Unnao rape victim showed that she died of extensive burn injuries, a senior doctor at the Safdarjung hospital said on Saturday. After the Unnao rape victim succumbed to burn injuries on Friday, Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal said that the rapists should be hanged within a month. On Thursday, the 23-year-old was airlifted from Lucknow's SMC government hospital to Safdarjung Hospital..