In a heart-wrenching display of resilience amid unimaginable agony, a 33-year-old married woman from Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, rode her scooter to a doctor’s clinic after being set on fire by her tormentor, only to succumb to her burns en route to advanced care. Nisha Singh’s tragic end has left her family shattered and ignited fury over unchecked harassment against women in rural India.
What happened unfolded in a flash of violence. Nisha, visiting her father’s home, was heading to a doctor when Deepak, a persistent harasser who had pressured her to talk and meet him for two months, confronted her. An argument erupted, and Deepak, aided by his friends, doused her with a flammable substance and set her ablaze. Screaming in pain with 90% burns, Nisha somehow summoned the strength to drive her scooter to her family doctor’s clinic. The doctor rushed her to a local hospital, then to Lohia Hospital in Kanpur, and finally toward Saifai Medical College, but she breathed her last on the way.
Her father, Balram Singh, recounted the devastating call from the doctor, arriving to find Nisha writhing and revealing Deepak’s role through her agony. Her sister Neetu admitted knowing about the stalking but keeping it from their parents, while husband Amit Chauhan was blindsided, as Nisha never confided in him. Police have filed an FIR against Deepak and his aides under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for murder and harassment, forming four teams to hunt them down.
Nisha’s heroic final ride exposes the lethal silence around women’s torment, demanding swift justice and societal awakening to end such predatory violence.
