TheBA second year student, who was found half-burnt near a highway inShahjahanpur, has now told the police that three people tried to rape her in afield near Rai Kheda village on Monday evening and when they did not succeed,they poured kerosene and set her on fire.
Superintendentof Police S. Anand said that the girl gave this statement to the investigators.She has not yet named the accused.
Thevictim has now been admitted to Civil Hospital in Lucknow. She has sufferedmore than 70 per cent burn injuries on the stomach chest and neck.
Thepolice officer, however, said that she frequently changed her statements andalso said that she was not aware how she reached the hospital from the thirdfloor of her college building.
InCCTV footage, the girl, a student of a college run by a trust of former unionminister Swami Chinmayanand, was seen coming down alone from the third floor,the police said.
TheSP said, "With the help of CCTV footage, we have found that the girl wentout of the college campus from a broken outer wall about 20 minutes afterentering the premises and was seen walking alone on a canal road."
Beforethat, the girl could be seen talking to her friends outside a classroom andvisiting a library.
Threeteams led by deputy superintendents of police (DSP) as well as an SOG team havebeen deployed. Besides, another team led by a Dy SP with five policemen ispresent in Lucknow's Civil Hospital where she is undergoing treatment forburns.
Overa dozen students of the college, including her friends, have been questioned.
Thegirl had called one person of her village on her mobile phone on the day ofincident and he has also been questioned, the SP said.
TheSP said that in the field where she was lying, some tumblers were found butthere was no trace of liquor.