Hindu girl set ablaze for being a devout Muslim

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Pravati Manik, 25, is battling for her life with 40 per cent burns in the surgical ward of the SCB Medical College Hospital here.

But she is not a victim of dowry torture as most such cases turn out to be.

A Hindu girl married to a Muslim, she is paying the price for being "too devout" in her new religion, a group of Muslims keeping watch outside the ward say.

In her declaration before the police, Pravati, whose in-laws are from Kaina village in Jajpur district, told the police that her mother-in-law, husband and his cousin together set her aflame after pouring kerosene on her clothes on Tuesday last, Jajpur superintendent of police, Binoytosh Mishra said.

Attracted by her screams, Muslim neighbours rushed to her rescue and doused the flames. But by then she had suffered about 40 per cent burns, Mishra said.

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