15-yr-old girl raped and set on fire

A 15-year-old girl was raped and set on fire in front of her family home in India, police said.

Police were called to Tigri village outside Delhi following reports that a 15-year-old girl had first been raped and then nearly burnt to death after being set on fire.

According to a police report, the girl’s parents found her after on the family’s home rooftop terrace after hearing her screams from downstairs.

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 Yadram Singh of Bisrakh police station said the girl was in critical condition. She had burns on 95 per cent of her body, local media reported.

Officers arrested a 20-year-old man at the scene.

The 15-year-old told police she was raped, beaten and set on fire by a man who had stalked her for months.

The attack is the latest in a series of recently reported rape cases against women and children in India.

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Activists from All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) were seen protesting the outside a police barricade in New Delhi, India.

Dozens of AIDWA activists on Monday held the protest demanding a probe into what they said were rapes and sexual assaults in Murthal town of Haryana state.

In a 2013 annual report from the National Crime Records Bureau, 24,924 cases of rape were reported across India in 2012.