UP: Dalit gang-rape victim dies in Delhi; Cong, VHP demands death sentence

Uttar Pradesh:   A 19-year-old Dalit rape victim, who was gang raped and left paralysed by four upper caste men, died a fortnight after the attack in a Delhi hospital on Tuesday. She was shifted to the Safdarjung Hospital in the national capital on Monday evening after her condition deteriorated.
On September 14, the Dalit rape victim was dragged by the dupatta around her neck to a field when she had gone to collect cattle fodder, which injured her spinal cord. When rape victim was held down, she apparently bit her own tongue which caused a deep cut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aIupSqT9tE Fakhrul Hoda, head of neurosurgery at the Aligarh hospital where she was being treated, told reporters that “Surgery to fix her spine could only have been done after her condition improved. The damage to the spinal cord appeared to be permanent.” The victim, youngest of five siblings, was on life support for some time. The girl was referred to Delhi on Monday on her father’s request. Her brother accompanied her to Delhi.
A week after she was hospitalised, the dalit gang rape victim told the police that she had been raped by four men whom she also named.
All four accused she named — Sandip, Ramu, Lavkush and Ravi — were arrested for gang rape, attempt to murder and under sections of the SC/ST Act.