In a shocking incident, a 20-year-old girl who had set herself blaze on being dumped by her boyfriend succumbed to her injuries at the MGM Medical College and Hospital.
The victim lakshmi Singh had on September 17 set herself on fire a day after her boy-friend Shankar Singh denied that he had any relationship with the girl and dumped her.
Peeved over the incident she set herself on fire. Daughter of Krishna Prasad Singh of Barabanki village in Bhilaipahadi panchayat, lakshmi was pregnant by 12 weeks.
The police had already arrested Shankar on September 18 after Krishna Prasad had lodged an FIR with the MGM police station against him and his mother Fulwati Devi.
The police are now trying to arrest Fulwati who is absconding.
According to officer-in-charge, MGM police station, Anuj Kumar, the victim had later developed physical relationship with him on the promise of marrying her.
But when she was pregnant and Shankar could know about the pregnancy, he had started ignoring the girl.
According to the statement, when the victim's parents demanded Shankar to know about his relation with laksmi, he straightaway denied any relation.
After the death of the girl, her relative had demanded the police to arrest Fulwati who was also equally responsible for the girl's situation.
After the police had sent the body to the MGM Medical College mortuary for postmortem, a team of police officials, led by the officer-in-charge had rushed to Barabanki village for arresting Fulwati, but she was absconding.