evidence: The victim, named as Ankita, was from the district of Dumka and in her final year of high school. She was allegedly doused in kerosene while sleeping and set on fire by a local man who had begun stalking her when she rejected his marriage proposal. She was treated in hospital for six days but succumbed to her injuries on Sunday. [...] Local Hindu groups and politicians have called for the alleged perpetrator, who is in police custody, to be handed the death penalty and have suggested that he killed Ankita out of religious malice because she was a Hindu and he is a Muslim. Dumka has a large Hindu majority at 79% of the population, while only 8% of its inhabitants are Muslim. [...] "After the cruelty meted out to Ankita, her death has made every Indian bow their heads in shame," Rahul Gandhi, a leader of the main opposition Congress party, said on Twitter.