By Mark Nicol for The Mail on Sunday
Published: 00:59 BST, 21 April 2019 | Updated: 00:59 BST, 21 April 2019
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Nusrat Rafi, 19, was doused in paraffin and set alight by a gang of fellow students at an Islamic school in Bangladesh after refusing to drop her allegations
Police investigating the barbaric murder of a teenage student who was set ablaze after accusing her headmaster of sexual assault have found vital clues.
Nusrat Rafi, 19, was doused in paraffin and set alight by a gang of fellow students at an Islamic school in Bangladesh after refusing to drop her allegations.
As thousands of women in Bangladesh and campaigners worldwide demand justice for the teenager, detectives revealed they had recovered burkas worn by Nusrat’s assailants to disguise their identities.
Police have made 17 arrests and reportedly obtained confessions from two of the alleged attackers.
Nusrat claimed the headmaster, named locally as Siraj-ud-Daula, assaulted her in his office in March but that when she tried to report it to police, officers allegedly told her it was ‘no big deal’.
Video footage from March 27 shows Nusrat – who lived in the small town of Feni, about 100 miles from the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka – tearfully lodging her complaint with police and describing how the headmaster allegedly ‘touched her inappropriately’.
But the video triggered a backlash against the teenager among staunchly conservative Muslims which, according to local reports, led to the savage