Protesters Demonstrating For Third Day in Wake of Gang Rape and Murder of Teen in Calcutta
Victim died on New Year's Eve
Protestors in the Indian city of Calcutta are demonstrating for a third day about the alleged gang rape and murder of a 16 year-old girl.
The girl was allegedly raped on two separate occasions near her home town of Madhyamgram: first on 26 October, then when she was returning from filing a police complaint the next day.
The 16 year old died on New Year's Eve after she was doused in kerosene and set alight.
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India will end up as Africa where gang rape is a means to take revenge/hate crime.