India, Dec. 31 -- Police have registered a case of rape and sexual assault after a 16-year-old girl, found a year after she ran away from home, in her dying statement alleged that she had been forcibly married to a man in Rajasthan who sexually abused and tortured her for months.

The minor girl died in northeast Delhi's Mustafabad on December 12 after prolonged illness caused by acute tuberculosis (TB). Before her death, she told her family that, after she left home, a woman from Bhajanpura persuaded her to come home with her where she was kept for five months.

"The woman then took her to Rajasthan's Tonk and married her to a 23-year-old local man, who raped her multiple times, assaulted and threatened her whenever she protested," her s...