On 29 March 2016, Delta Meghwal, a 17-year-old Dalit girl, was found dead at her college in Nokha, Bikaner district in the state of Rajasthan, India.
[1] Her father, Mahendra Ram Meghwal,[2] is a primary school teacher[3] and a resident of Trimohi village of Barmer district in Rajasthan.
Her father alleged that the college tried to cover up the incident and claimed it had forced a written apology signed by Meghwal and Singh which indicated consensual sex.
[4] On 8 April 2016, with the other two named parties now in custody, the Bikaner police said that a Forensic Science Laboratory report indicated Meghwal was raped and later drowned, rather than being placed in the tank when already dead.
[5][6] The Indian National Congress (INC), who were the opposition political party, said that the state's Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje, was failing to provide justice.
Soon after, it was reported that the Government of Rajasthan had recommended it[10][11] but in September 2016 there was an appeal to the state governor, Kalyan Singh, to intervene because of claims that Raje had not acted on that intention.
[3] According to official facts, Priya Shukla was posted as a Warden in the Jain Adarsh Kanya Shikshak Prashikshan Sansthan, Nokha.
On the following day, the complainant received a call from the Nokha Police Station that the dead body of his daughter had been found in a water tank.