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INDIA - CONTINUED RAPE CRISES FOR
WOMEN - TEEN GIRL GANG RAPED COMMITS SUICIDE - VIDEO
By Harmeet
Shah Singh and Hilary Whiteman, CNN
December
31, 2012 - New Delhi (CNN) - Indian police have arrested three
suspects named in a suicide note left by a teenager who claimed she had been
gang raped, as anger in the country grows over the rising number of violent
crimes committed against women.
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The 17-year-old girl died Wednesday after ingesting poison, according to Paramjit Singh Gill, the inspector-general of police in the Patiala district of Punjab in the country's north.
In her suicide note, the girl blamed her alleged rapists for causing her death. Three of the suspects, including a female accomplice, have since been arrested, Gill said.
The unnamed girl claimed she was gang-raped during the Hindu festival of Diwali on November 13. However, a formal case wasn't registered by police until 14 days later.
Two police officers involved in the case have been fired and another has been suspended for their handling of the rape complaint. Gill said an investigation was underway into allegations made by the girl's family that the officers pressured her to withdraw her complaint.
The teenager's death comes after days of mass protests over the gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in New Delhi on December 16. The victim in that case died early Saturday.