Nisha Singh, visiting her father’s home, was heading to a doctor. Deepak, a persistent harasser, intercepted her and an argument erupted. Deepak aided by his friends, doused Nisha with a flammable substance and set her ablaze. Screaming in pain with grievous burns, she 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 in pain. Police have filed an FIR against Deepak arrested under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for murder and harassment.
