Patna,(BiharTimes): Even as the opposition parties and women groups have decried the inaction of West Bengal police leading to the setting ablaze of a 16-year old gang-rape victim originally from Samastipur district of Bihar, xhief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday announced a compensation of Rs one lakh for her family.

Talking to the media in Patna he said he had sent Inspector General (Special Branch), J S Gangwar, to Kolkata and had even offered the family to settle in Bihar.

The chief minister said the state government is in constant touch with the West Bengal government.

Reports said the police have appealed to the court to initiate
murder charges against two of the six accused––Ratan Sil and Minta Sil--in the case. The victim’s family was their tenants.

The police said since the girl refused to withdraw her rape complaint despite threats, the accused poured kerosene on her and set her ablaze.

The father of the victim, who had died in a Kolkata hospital, on
Wednesday alleged that his daughter did not commit suicide but was set on fire by the same men who gangraped her in October last year.

The girl’s death triggered massive protests in the Kolkata as her father is a member of Left affiliated Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU).

Meanwhile, the chairperson of the Bihar State Women’s Commission, Kahkashan Parween, has sought strict action against the culprits and police officials responsible for the inaction and taking away the body of the victims for cremation.

On the other hand the Bharatiya Janata Party leader Dr C P Thakur said that it seems that there is nothing like government in West Bengal. He asked Nitish Kumar to directly take up the matter with his Bengal counterpart, Mamata Banerjee.

CPI ML general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, while condemning the incident, threatened that his party would launch an agitation like the one which Delhi witnessed after December 16, 2012. He demanded strict action against the culprits and the police officials responsible for the incident.

RJD leader Samrat Chaudhary too asked the chief minister to take up the matter with Mamata.

However, Janata Dal (United) leader Alok Ajay said that in the federal structure law and order is the state subject, yet his government has taken up the matter with the West Bengal government.