New Delhi: In a bizarre incident, a woman poured petrol and tried to burn her nine-year-old niece outside Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital on Saturday afternoon while demanding justice for the Unnao victim.
The incident occurred nearly an hour after the Unnao gang rape-and-murder victim's body was taken to her village in Uttar Pradesh from Safdarjung after the autopsy.
The woman said she was traumatised by the Unnao rape-and-murder case and came to Safdarjung Hospital after hearing about her death. However, the police suspect that the woman is mentally unstable and hence took the extreme step. The police said the woman, a resident of Madanpur Khadar in Delhi, looked to be mentally disturbed as well.
"The child was rescued promptly and is now admitted in Safdarjung Hospital. The woman was detained and removed from the spot," said a senior police officer.