y way of background, two persons had tried to immolate

themselves outside the Supreme Court in August 2021.

The police and the security personnel tried to douse the flame
and took them to the hospital, but both succumbed due to
their injuries in the hospital. It was later telecast on TV news
that just before the incident, one of them did a Facebook live
for about 10 minutes, in which she made accusations Bahujan
Samaj Party MP Atul Rai, of raping her at his Varanasi home
in 2019.