Teenage Rape Victim Commits Suicide

Second Indian gang rape victim 'committed suicide' after police took two weeks to take any action.

The teenage girl was kidnapped from Baras village in the Patiala district of Punjab during Diwali on November 13, by two men. 

She was then taken to the nearby village of Brahamanmajra where she is alleged to have been drugged and repeatedly raped in a well. 

• It took police in Punjab 14 days to register the case and a further 30 days to make an arrest.
• The girl is believed to have been harassed and intimidated by her alleged attackers after she reported the crime.
  
• The news comes after days of violent protests against rape in New Delhi following the brutal rape of another girl.
  
  
• The girl 'consumed poison' at around 5pm on Boxing Day before she was rushed to Rajindera Hospital at Patiala, but she died later that night. 
  
  The accused men were named in a 'suicide note' left by the girl. 
  
  Patiala police have now ordered an investigation and said police would be 'dismissed from their job if negligence was proved'.