<p class="title">A 28-year old woman set herself and her son (12) ablaze at her home in Uttar Pradesh's Shahajahanpur district, about 175 kilometre from Lucknow, on Wednesday. </p>.<p class="title">She died a day later and her son was stated to be critical and battling for life.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Three policemen, including the local police station in-charge, have been suspended on charges of laxity.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the police sources in Lucknow, the victim had reportedly been gang-raped by three men, all residents of her village, a few months back.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They said that the local police, instead of taking action against, exerted pressure on the victim not to insist on lodging a complaint and compromise.</p>.<p class="bodytext">''The police refused to lodge the FIR though I had told them the names of the culprits... They tried to pressure me not to insist on the same,'' the victim said in her dying declaration at the hospital.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her husband said that three again raped his wife a week back and threatened her with dire consequences if she approached the police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Feeling humiliated the victim immolated herself and her son, sources said</p>.<p class="bodytext">One person has been arrested in this connection and a hunt was launched to nab the other culprits, police said.</p>
<p class="title">A 28-year old woman set herself and her son (12) ablaze at her home in Uttar Pradesh's Shahajahanpur district, about 175 kilometre from Lucknow, on Wednesday. </p>.<p class="title">She died a day later and her son was stated to be critical and battling for life.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Three policemen, including the local police station in-charge, have been suspended on charges of laxity.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the police sources in Lucknow, the victim had reportedly been gang-raped by three men, all residents of her village, a few months back.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They said that the local police, instead of taking action against, exerted pressure on the victim not to insist on lodging a complaint and compromise.</p>.<p class="bodytext">''The police refused to lodge the FIR though I had told them the names of the culprits... They tried to pressure me not to insist on the same,'' the victim said in her dying declaration at the hospital.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her husband said that three again raped his wife a week back and threatened her with dire consequences if she approached the police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Feeling humiliated the victim immolated herself and her son, sources said</p>.<p class="bodytext">One person has been arrested in this connection and a hunt was launched to nab the other culprits, police said.</p>
