Indian court orders security for family of gang-rape victim
An Indian court yesterday ordered protection for the family of a schoolgirl who was gang-raped twice and then burned to death in the country's east, the father said.
The family sought protection from the High Court in the eastern city of Kolkata after vowing to fight for justice for their 16-year-old daughter, who died on New Year's Eve after being set ablaze.
The father says his family has been threatened by members of the gang which raped his daughter on October 26 and then again the next day.
The second rape occurred as she was returning home in the town of Madhyagram, 25 kilometres (15 miles) north of Kolkata, after reporting the first attack at a police station.
The family moved house but gang members tracked them down, before allegedly setting their daughter on fire on December 23 at their home. She later died in hospital.
"I am satisfied and confident that we will get justice for our daughter," the father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told AFP by phone from Kolkata after the court's order.
Her death sparked protests in Kolkata and comes 12 months after the fatal gang-rape of a student on a moving bus in the capital that shocked the country and unleashed waves of anger over violence against women.
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