Eight days after a 10-year old tribal girl from Jharkhand was raped and brutally assaulted allegedly by her neighbour in Gujarat’s Bharuch, she succumbed to her injuries at a hospital in Vadodara on Monday. The girl suffered “two cardiac arrests” and “sepsis” due to the internal injuries, the hospital said. The accused, who is also from Jharkhand and has been arrested, had allegedly earlier raped the girl about a month ago but the incident was not reported to the police at the time as her mother was “worried about family’s reputation”.
