Raped woman dies of ‘complications’ after losing fetus | Bareilly News

BAREILLY: A 22-year-old rape survivor died of “health complications” days after her fetus died in the womb in Sambhal. Her family members said the woman came to know about the condition of the fetus a week after the fetal death.

They took her to a local hospital where doctors found her condition to be critical due to septicemia and referred her to another medical facility in Delhi where she died of “multiple organ failure”.

The defendant lives in the same city and had known the woman for two years. On April 14, she fell ill and was taken to a doctor, where her family discovered she was pregnant. She then told her mother about the sexual assault and the defendants.

Bahjoi CO Deepak Kumar told TOI, “The woman was beaten up and sexually abused by the accused and her parents had lodged a complaint against him on April 17. A case has been lodged against him under IPC Section 376 (rape). The parents of the accused have been booked under IPC sections 323 (intentional hurt) and 504 (intentional insult). The man was arrested.”

Sambhal SP Kuldeep Singh Gunawat said, “As she came from a poor family and could not afford proper treatment, we shifted her to a hospital in Delhi but she could not be saved.”