'My daughter told me in gestures what happened'—mother of Rajasthan tribal girl burnt alive

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The entire village in Rajasthans Karauli district has gathered under a tarp, up in arms about the alleged rape and murder of an 11-year-old tribal girl who was speech and hearing impaired..

The police let her downthe FIR was filed two days after the attack, and the man she identified has not been arrested yet..

Her parents took her almost immediately to the government hospital in Hindaun, where her condition was declared too serious to treatshe needed to be taken to the government-run Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur..

Her uncle accompanied her on 10 May, while the father went to the local New Mandi police station in Hindaun to report the crime...

While the girls family says she was lucid and could have recorded her statement, the police claim she was in no state to do so...