The 15-year-old's family
told police six men had dragged her inside her house after she objected to
their lewd gestures and attempts to touch her.
She was doused in kerosene
and set on fire.
The attack happened in
Shahjahanpur village, Uttar Pradesh state, and is the latest in a series of
horrific sexually-motivated attacks in the country.
The girl was taken to
hospital but died on Sunday night, police superintendent RK Sahu revealed.
"Four of the six
accused have been arrested," he said.
"All of them belong to
the same village and are of the same caste as that of the girl."
Police are hunting for the
other two men.
India's attitude to violent
attacks on women has been in the spotlight in recent years after a number of
shocking cases.
The fatal gang rape of a
woman on a New Delhi bus in December 2012 sparked large street protests and
made headlines around the world.
India brought in tougher
laws after the killing and has tried to educate police on rape cases, but the
attacks continue.
A 20-year-old woman was
allegedly attacked on the orders of a village council in January this year, and
in May two girls were gang-raped and hanged from a mango tree in their village
- also in Utter Pradesh.
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those wicked men think they are superior to women
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