Updated Feb 21, 2021 · 05:10 pm Members of All India Progressive Women s Association protest on February 20 after the bodies of two Dalit girls were found in a field in Uttar Pradesh s Unnao district. | PTI
The teenager from Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh, who was among three girls found unconscious in a field on February 17, was taken off ventilator support on Saturday,
The Hindu reported, quoting a statement from the Kanpur hospital treating her.
The girl was “off ventilator and has spontaneous respiration” three days after she was admitted to the hospital at 11 pm on Wednesday, the medical bulletin issued by the Regency Hospital said. She was being treated in the pediatric intensive care unit and was under constant monitoring.
Updated Feb 19, 2021 | 20:24 IST
Two persons, including a minor, have been detained for allegedly poisoning three teenage Dalit girls in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, police said on Friday. Unnao case: Police detain 2 minor boys for poisoning Dalit girls, calls it murder by jilted lovers | Photo Credit: ANI
Key Highlights
Three girls, aged 16, 15 and 14 years , of a Dalit family were found lying unconscious in the field under the jurisdiction of Asoha police station on Wednesday.
Two of them died, while the third is being administered treatment at a facility in Kanpur.
The two accused wanted to kill the girl who is alive, police said.