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Pressured by police, gang-raped Indian teenager commits suicide
December 30, 2012
Well, here's some more terrible news for your Thursday. After being attacked and raped during a Diwali festival in mid-November, a 17-year-old girl committed suicide on Wednesday. She swallowed poison.

Of course, as is often the case, there was plenty of the police mishandling everything. Inspector General Paramjit Singh Gill, the police chief for the area, said that the teenager had been "running from pillar to post to get her case registered" but nevertheless, nothing formal was filed.

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