中新网1月4日电 据台湾“中广新闻网”4日报道，一名12岁印度农村女孩，去年10月遭到几名男子奸杀，印度警方对两名主嫌，提出指控。
这起强暴发生时，当时印度媒体错把女孩年龄说成16岁，但警方随后发现，她当时只有12岁零9个月，她遭到几名男子强暴，从而导致怀孕。去年12月13日，歹徒还纵火将其严重烧伤，这名女孩不幸死亡。
印度警方已经逮捕6名男子，对其中2名主嫌提出指控，指控他们犯下杀人罪。法医已经采集轮奸案6名被告血液样本，将提取其脱氧核糖核酸(DNA)与胎儿进行比对。
这起恶性轮奸案引发加尔各答、新德里等多地抗议活动。
School records indicate that the minor girl, who was gang raped twice in October and set on fire two months later by her alleged rapists on the outskirts of Kolkata, was only 12 years old. This comes even as it emerged that the girl was pregnant when she succumbed to her burn injuries on December 31.
The girl’s school in Bihar’s Samastipur district has her date of birth as February 5, 2001, contradicting reports that say she was 16. School authorities confirmed her age to HT; she would have turned 13 next month.
The Bidhan Nagar police, on the outskirts of Kolkata, have sent the remnants of the foetus recovered during the minor’s post mortem examination to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory for a DNA test. Police officials told HT that they have collected blood samples of the accused – now under arrest – to determine who was responsible for impregnating her. “We have asked the CFSL to expedite the test,” said S Nimbalkar, additional deputy commissioner.
“What sort of people would perpetrate this kind of monstrosity on a 12-year-old girl?” was the refrain among tearful friends, who assembled for a condolence meeting at the school on Thursday.
The girl’s grandfather used to be a tram driver in Kolkata and her father went to the city about 15 years ago in search of a livelihood. “The child and her mother used to shuttle between the village and Kolkata till a few months ago,” a villager told HT.
The half-built house, where the mother and child stayed during their visit to the village, still stands. “After the rape, the entire family lived here till mid-November, apparently to escape further torment at the hands of the rapists,” said another villager.
Thereafter, thinking the matter had cooled, they returned to Kolkata. It proved fatal for the minor child.
Several hundred activists protested in Kolkata and New Delhi on Thursday, accusing the West Bengal government and police of failing to act swiftly after the girl lodged her initial complaint.
“We strongly believe that if your government had acted against the criminals… the subsequent horrific events would have been prevented and the young woman’s life could have been saved,” the All India Democratic Women’s Association, who organised the protest, and other activists, wrote in a letter to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Bannerjee.
(With agency inputs)