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Found naked along UP highway, college student says set on fire for resisting gang-rape

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A college student in Uttar Pradesh has alleged that she was set on fire after a failed attempt to gang-rape her. The girl, a student of BA second-year, is currently undergoing treatment at a government hospital in Lucknow.

The matter first came to light on Wednesday when locals found the girl without clothes and severely burnt along a national highway in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur district. She was immediately rushed to a hospital in the district and later referred to Lucknow with 72 per cent burns.

Director of the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Civil Hospital in Lucknow, Dr SC Saundriyal told news agency PTI that the girl's condition is now stable.